Easter Sunday

I know, I am late on this blog post. I have been super super busy. Late happy Easter though. This Easter was great. To be honest, I never get tired of seeing my little brother so excited for things like the Easter bunny. Even if he did wake us up at 6:30 a.m., I don't mind because I remember those days. I mean, we all do. I was too tired to be taking pictures, so these are my moms. I still need to show you how my Easter was.

Us lazily searching through out Easter baskets.

Ok, I don't want to show you any close ups of my face because my hair is a mess and I have bags under my eyes. So, you will see this amazing picture of me in my Shamo slippers from sea world looking for eggs.

This is me in my Easter dress. Best dress ever.

~Aubrey :)



Vacation in Sedona

For Spring Break, my family went on a little overnight vacation to Sedona, Arizona. It's this beautiful place with neat red rock formations and green trees spotted throughout the town. It's a lovely place that I enjoyed. I couldn't resist bringing my camera to take lots of pictures of this place.

We first went into this store with all this neat stuff. The ceiling was full of these.

We found these old signs. They were sort of cool, but I couldn't help but smile with the one on the left.

If anybody knows about Sedona, you know it apparently is a really spiritual place. So, you find all these crazy things like this.

Throughout this store, you see these vintage metal signs. There was a whole wall filled with them and I couldn't resist doing a black and white picture of them.

Ok, a major reason Sedona is apparently spiritual is because there is a whole bunch of Vortexes throughout Sedona. If you don't know what a vortex is (we didn't either, we had to look it up) it is a whirling mass or rotary motion in a liquid, gas, flame, etc, such as the spiralling movement of water around a whirlpool. In this case, it is a big magnetic pull. Apparently, that is where you can get spiritual enlightenment. In this little store, they claimed there was a vortex there. We couldn't resist and instantly went under it to receive spiritual enlightenment. For the rest of the day we cracked jokes about the vortex.

More vintage bottles.

We went inside this crazy toy store and couldn't resist the temptation of playing with alllll these toys.

Outside this building there were these chimes. Let me just say, it feels great to hit things without anyone telling you to stop!!!!

Ok, there is this big thing about spirit stones. Austin wanted one for his ACTs. We found the spirit stone that helps you with that. He said he had to pick wisely so this is him feeling around for the best spirit stone.

This is apparently what the spirit stone he picked does.

Outside this cowboy shop was this old robotic guy waving hi. He was beat up and everything. I took a picture with him, of course. Don't mess, he's my man.

We were a little sceptical of the last vortex we found. So we found a legit one. It is on top of this rock, but you can still feel it's really peaceful vibes from over a half of a mile away. ;)

Ian meditated..........

Austin meditated........(that's him on the top)

It was a fun vacation and I enjoyed it!!!!

~Aubrey :)



Science Project Fun

Today I sadly had Spring Break homework. :( However, that homework happened to be with a friend. We had to do a chain reaction together. Obviously, we had a little fun and decided to take some pictures together. It is defiantly blog worthy. We had a fun time and yes we did get the project done.

This is only a few of our stuff for the chain reaction.  Yes, we did do a diet coke and mentoes explosion. I ended up eating a lot of mentoes................

Part of the reaction.

We were soooooooo happy it worked we couldn't help but capture the moment.

~Aubrey :)



General Conference

This weekend, our church was given the wonderful opportunity to listen to General Conference. For any nonmembers, General Conference is a chance to listen to the leaders of our church. I really enjoyed general conference this year. I feel as I get older I can listen and apply the gospel topics more to my life. Therefore, I decided to share with you my top three favorite talks.

Elder Lary Y. Wilson's talk on Families. I really enjoyed this talk and it made me want to strengthen family ties. It also helped me with developing that mother-like attribute. If you want to listen to it click this link: http://www.lds.org/general-conference/watch/2012/04?lang=eng&vid=1542491649001&cid=7

Next, I enjoyed President Dieter F. Utchdorfs talk on forgiveness and being kind to one another. It really was about out time. You can see it here: http://www.lds.org/general-conference/watch/2012/04?lang=eng&vid=1541950013001&cid=4

Lastly, I always enjoy the Young Women's broadcast. One talk I really enjoyed in it was President Monsons. It talked about three important things and being a lighthouse. You can watch it here: http://www.lds.org/general-conference/watch/2012/04?lang=eng&vid=1528341951001&cid=1

If you want to know what to do with those talks to get the most out of them click here: https://www.lds.org/youth/article/getting-the-most-out-of-conference?lang=eng

~Aubrey :)



Spring Failure

It finally feels like Spring is in the air. So..........to celebrate I of course attempted to take pictures of Ian and I jumping in the air with a stuffed bunny and Tulips in our hands. However, it was an ATTEMPT. Since this blog is about my life, I had to post it even if it was a failure. Anybody close with me, knows that this frustrated me a lot to have this idea fail. I have done successful jumping pictures various of times and it has worked. For some odd reason, this was not my camera day. My camera is stupid though.......whatever. Here is my Spring Failure. Note: we were suppose to be jumping and in the air.

It started out strong with Ian and me together. Fail.

Then Ian dropped out and I was left with me. This has to be the best picture of the whole set, though.

I tried again......

And again...........

Eventually I gave up and ended up eating pre-Easter candy.

~Aubrey :)



Happy Hunger Games!!!!

Happy Hunger Games everyone!!!! This Friday I went to see this amazing movie and let me just say, it is great!!!!! I LOVE Peeta. The directors really did a great job on the casting and developing the mood of the Hunger Games. The only thing I didn't like was the outfits Katniss and Peeta wear for the opening ceremony. It was really disappointing. Besides that, I love that movie SO much!!!! Word of advice: BRING TISSUES!!!!! I went with my family and two of my friends. Of course, I said this moment was blog worthy so I took pictures. The quote of the night was said by my brother Austin: Gosh!!! It's like a Hunger Games just to get into the movie theater!!!! Oh, yes it is Austin. It was pretty insane, people are like crazy!!!! Anyways, here are my pictures.

I prepared for this event in the morning by listening to the album. It is a really great album and the music fits perfectly into the movie. With the exception of 2 or 3 songs, I really enjoy listening to it.

My mom and me waiting to go in.

Ian and me also waiting.

These are my friends and me waiting in the movie theater. It is a dark picture, sadly. We were SOOOO excited we were squealing with joy when it started. Together we jumped out of our seats at the jumpy parts, bawled at the sad parts, and giggled at the Peeta parts!!! :)

May the odds be ever in your favor!!!!

~Aubrey :)

Getting in the Mood for the Hunger Games

About 12 days left until the Hunger Games movie!!!! I am so excited and to show my excitement, I decided to do a post on ways to get in the mood for the Hunger Games. As most of you know, I stalk like 3 hunger games fan sites and have a lot of things to get you in the mood. So, here you go!!!

1. re-read the whole book or read it for the first time.



2. Get the soundtrack which comes out March 20.

Get all that crazy Hunger Games merchandise.

3. Or see funny hunger games things that you know will make you smile!!!

4. See all the Hunger Games videos over and over again. Which take forever to download, but just youtube them and you will see them!!!!

Now, I hope you are getting more and more excited for the hunger games!!!! I know I am.

~Aubrey :)

Classic Game in our House

You all know those games that are just classics and when they are placed before you, you can't help but put your hands on them. Well, something arrived at our house a couple days ago. Rock em Sock em Robots. The game with the blue and red robots battling in the center of the arena. Well, my dad needed them for Primary. He has an Olympic theme going on and he wanted to do wrestling. So, he got this fun piece of equipment into our house. Oh, how the simplest of games (compared to all our crazy technology these days) brings the families together.

~Aubrey :)



Young Women Pictures

As most of you know, I got my young women's medallion on Christmas Day. As a thing my parents do, they take portraits of you to hang up on,''the wall''. Well, my mom and I took our photographer (Marissa Moss) down to Town Square. I finally got back my pictures and here are some of my favorites. Note: this where I want to get in photography when I am older. The reason for this whole photography blog. Please let me know which one is your favorite!!!!

One of my favorites!!!

This picture was so fun to take.

I started laughing in the middle of the picture.

 

Serious face. Which is hard to do!!!

If anybody knows me, you know this picture is so me!!!!

~Aubrey :)