This Cousins retreat i will tell you now was the best one i have been to yet. Well Just the most exciting. Kristin was sent to the hospital in an ambulance and i kinda got left in the lake. other than that it was fantastic. We had to new cousins come and they happened to be my sisters, Katrina and Adriana.
ok sorry if any of you don't know what cousins' Retreat is it is a social gathering of all the cousins 12 and older on my moms side and we just have fun at my aunt and Uncles property in Duchesne. If the cousins can't make it then they are are well just more welcomed the next time they come. sara hadn't been there for 2 years because of Europe and all.
ok now i'll start with our drive up the the lake. Our whole family, well not all of us but most of us, started up ,or down, and we all sang songs that kolbie would switch once the CD was over including the "sisters CD" "Wicked" and " MOMs Mixes1,2,3,4,5,6..." The go o forever i tell you. THis was really fun. The family wouldn't fight at all so it was a very pleasant drive. unlike some years.
After a very long 2 hours we finally arrived to Maddy and jody cleaning out a trailor filled with some of maddy's stuff. so Knowing the Astles and our willinngness to help so much we helped empty out the trailor in the hot sun.It only took a few minutes. it was really fun. Then all of us sat on the couch for quite some time wich seemed like 2-3 hours before people arrived. right then Uncle peir Started ooking us his famous family wide Hamburgers. I don't know why they are so delisous but they are. He is a Fantastic cook. i am sure we all had at least 1 and a 1/2 so ya.
The Masquitoes Were in full force this year and so we didn't do the camp fire. but we still did Really funny games that if you ask me about i WILL teach you. Before I tell you about those i will tell you aout the injures we had like the twins flipping and/or tipping. Kims 12 bug bites in 5 minute that were Huge.Kristins wisdom teeth and then sent to the hospital after being hit in the jaw after a wipe out on the banana, sara had sunscreen in her eye the whole day on the beach, and i think thats about it.
OK!!!1 now to the game night. jen and andy had 2 games planned out the "Bowl Game" and the"clue Game" These games were the funniest games on the planet to watch, exspeicially around midnight when you are loopy any way.the bowl game as fun but not as fun as the clue game. Lets just say Uncle pier can shimmy like shakira and brian is very discriptive with out words. This games brings out the inner acter in everyone. It is really funny. During the game but not part of the game Ema ATE a Dragon Fly it was gross but at the same time really cool.
Boating was way fun all except for the ambulance. There was nothing unusual about that we had all gone through it before with sara a few year before.Kristin is fine she justt went into shock when she got hit in the jaw where her wisdom teeth were. The banana was a blast like usual.so ya .
So ya this was the most exciting, wonderful , best expirence i hve had all summer. Thanks Uncle Pier and Aunt Jodi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Duck Creek Village
This past week my famliy and i went to a cabin in a town near cedar city called Duck Creek Village. This was one of the best things this summer.We Played horseshoes and out of like 20 games i played a scored all of about 10 points when you need 21 to win or 11 with my dad, that was about 100 or so throws of the horse shoe.
The family went to see Fiddler on the Roof at the shakespierian(thats not how you spell it) festival. Knowing me i make a fool out of my self every where i go, so i told Sara and Kolbie Finally i shakespear i know the story of. Sara and Kolbie knowing it wasn't a shakespear play started laughing and told me that they do a couple of plays that shakespear didn't write so there i was all embaressed and watched the play quitely.
The next day i woke up to the sound of a rooster,yes it was a rooster and every morning i did wake up to the same rooster over and over and over again. This wouldn't have bothered me as much if it stopped after awhile ,but no it went on day-in-day-out. It was very annoying after a very,very long time. We all got pictures of the rooster and it is very entertaining trying to see the rooster run and the person taking the picture chase the rooster. eventually i had some of the kids chase the rooster near me but that didn't work. I did get a successful picture ,but it took all week.
My not so favorite part of the vacation was the hiking part. We hiked almost every day it was very tiring. The hikes were very beautiful in the three National Parks we went to. The scenery was great i was actually part of janets family for a while( well one hike or so for a day). we also went horse back riding by our cabin, and it was so fun until we went home and we were all sore.
We also played only one game of SCUM, i was king for about half the game and them i was scum or weenie. kim unfortunatly was scum for about 7/8 of the game. the game lasted from 11am to 2 or 3 pm. then we went on another hike. i had to mention the game with laura and Ben with the "lowies" only sara and Janet laughed ,but thats enough for me.
One other thing, one afternoon it was either hannah, megan, or sidney who found it but i humongous moth. it was huge. knowing us astles we all get out our cameras and start taking a lot of pictures of a big moth. i know weird. well that was a very memoral part of our wonderful vacation at Duck creek Village.
In the end this was a very fun vacation along with all my other very fun vacations to come. Again i say Have a great Summer!!!!!!!!!!!
The family went to see Fiddler on the Roof at the shakespierian(thats not how you spell it) festival. Knowing me i make a fool out of my self every where i go, so i told Sara and Kolbie Finally i shakespear i know the story of. Sara and Kolbie knowing it wasn't a shakespear play started laughing and told me that they do a couple of plays that shakespear didn't write so there i was all embaressed and watched the play quitely.
The next day i woke up to the sound of a rooster,yes it was a rooster and every morning i did wake up to the same rooster over and over and over again. This wouldn't have bothered me as much if it stopped after awhile ,but no it went on day-in-day-out. It was very annoying after a very,very long time. We all got pictures of the rooster and it is very entertaining trying to see the rooster run and the person taking the picture chase the rooster. eventually i had some of the kids chase the rooster near me but that didn't work. I did get a successful picture ,but it took all week.
My not so favorite part of the vacation was the hiking part. We hiked almost every day it was very tiring. The hikes were very beautiful in the three National Parks we went to. The scenery was great i was actually part of janets family for a while( well one hike or so for a day). we also went horse back riding by our cabin, and it was so fun until we went home and we were all sore.
We also played only one game of SCUM, i was king for about half the game and them i was scum or weenie. kim unfortunatly was scum for about 7/8 of the game. the game lasted from 11am to 2 or 3 pm. then we went on another hike. i had to mention the game with laura and Ben with the "lowies" only sara and Janet laughed ,but thats enough for me.
One other thing, one afternoon it was either hannah, megan, or sidney who found it but i humongous moth. it was huge. knowing us astles we all get out our cameras and start taking a lot of pictures of a big moth. i know weird. well that was a very memoral part of our wonderful vacation at Duck creek Village.
In the end this was a very fun vacation along with all my other very fun vacations to come. Again i say Have a great Summer!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Trek
I bet you guys were wondering how fun trek really was. Surprizingly it was way fun and spiritual. My family had 9 people in it mostly boys so it didn't need to pull the handcart very much because we did have 5 guys in my family. Our moto was "Knowing and Going the Distance" this fit our family very well because two men in our family invented and had the created the odometer. This was way cool. Our family's name was the Clans'n ,this was because that was the first letter of our lasts names. luckly i had an A at the begining of my name.
I trekked for Isabella Jane Bradshaw Astle. Her family made it to Salt Lake without any deaths. after that she became a very good seamstress. She was also very smart. she had i was pretty sure 7 children but i can remember.
When we went on the womens pull we made it up, just barely though. At the top all the men stood with their hats off and the could not help us at all. The hill was pretty steep , sandy ,and rocky. Every time we would get past one rock we were at another rock just like that. after the pull the Trek choir sang a song and i was in it.
Martin's I would have to say was the most spiritual thins i went on through out the trek. In Martin's cove i could really feel Isabella with me at all times. she helped me get through the day which was very long, or at least it felt really long. The spirit was very stong in Martin's cove, I hope you can all have the experience like i did.
I trekked for Isabella Jane Bradshaw Astle. Her family made it to Salt Lake without any deaths. after that she became a very good seamstress. She was also very smart. she had i was pretty sure 7 children but i can remember.
When we went on the womens pull we made it up, just barely though. At the top all the men stood with their hats off and the could not help us at all. The hill was pretty steep , sandy ,and rocky. Every time we would get past one rock we were at another rock just like that. after the pull the Trek choir sang a song and i was in it.
Martin's I would have to say was the most spiritual thins i went on through out the trek. In Martin's cove i could really feel Isabella with me at all times. she helped me get through the day which was very long, or at least it felt really long. The spirit was very stong in Martin's cove, I hope you can all have the experience like i did.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
The Big sleepover/slumberparty
yesterday adriana and i had a slumberparty with my cuz lauren and her friend megan, it was really fun. we stayed up till like 1am and we were all really tired it was way fun and funny cuz we were laughing a lot.
after we finished playing the wii then we went in my room and talked to about 5 10 min it was pretty cool. we fell asleep really fast cuz it was 1 in the moring.
before that we did a uttbe video called match makers with megan and adriana guest starring savannah , that was alot of fun too. i really like having people over not being bored out of my head. lauren is going back to logan on sunday(fathersday) we forgot to take pictures. sorry.
well i hope you guys have a really great summer. i go on trek next week.
after we finished playing the wii then we went in my room and talked to about 5 10 min it was pretty cool. we fell asleep really fast cuz it was 1 in the moring.
before that we did a uttbe video called match makers with megan and adriana guest starring savannah , that was alot of fun too. i really like having people over not being bored out of my head. lauren is going back to logan on sunday(fathersday) we forgot to take pictures. sorry.
well i hope you guys have a really great summer. i go on trek next week.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Ladder Thing
OK!!!! so Adriana totally fell off of the ladder hooked to my loft! it was really funny but sad at the same time. i was doing my nails and then i heard a screem and a big thud. This just happened to be adriana falling off the ladder! So wasn't hurt but her elbow might have a bruise we don't know until tomorrow cause that will give it time to make a bruise if there is going to be one. it was really funny then we were both shaking for quite a while.
when we both stopped shaking we went for another walk and saw again nobody. it is still so sad that we haven't met any one our age.
when we both stopped shaking we went for another walk and saw again nobody. it is still so sad that we haven't met any one our age.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Sisters night
On friday we had a Cousin-friend-brother-sister's night. It was loads of fun and we were able to celebrate caitlins 1/2 birthday with clown cones. They were really yummy.
They whole rondezvous took place at our old house as we played apples to apples and had a blast even though i didn't get one green card :( !!! That was the only game we played before we all got tired around 9:30 10ish so then we watched a moving and i was the first one to fall asleep so i can't tell what happened after that but i am almost 100% sure there was no fun without me, NOT! i really don't know they didn't tell me anything. It was a very fun night though. I hope we can do again soon.
They whole rondezvous took place at our old house as we played apples to apples and had a blast even though i didn't get one green card :( !!! That was the only game we played before we all got tired around 9:30 10ish so then we watched a moving and i was the first one to fall asleep so i can't tell what happened after that but i am almost 100% sure there was no fun without me, NOT! i really don't know they didn't tell me anything. It was a very fun night though. I hope we can do again soon.
The BIG Move
Yes!!!! we have finally moved to our new house. It is really big and my room is humongous(if thats how you spell it). I have a walk-in-closet, a pretty big mirror and my absolute kinda favorite a LOFT!! Sara is living in the old house and we still go over there but we are officially living in the new house.
I haven't met any new friends yet and for one thing I haven't gone to the new ward to meet ane new people. i do know that our neighbors have younger kids that are caitlins age and under for the younger part of the family. adriana and i walked around the neighborhood yesterday for about 2hours and met nobody. We are afraid that no one our age lives in this neighborhood. i hope we meet people soon so we won't be bored out of our heads for the next 4 weeks.
I haven't met any new friends yet and for one thing I haven't gone to the new ward to meet ane new people. i do know that our neighbors have younger kids that are caitlins age and under for the younger part of the family. adriana and i walked around the neighborhood yesterday for about 2hours and met nobody. We are afraid that no one our age lives in this neighborhood. i hope we meet people soon so we won't be bored out of our heads for the next 4 weeks.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Skool IS out
School is finally out!!! i can now start relaxing!!! NOT. i have so many vacations to go on and you will beable ot see it. i will have photos of all my vacations varying from st.george, EFY, Girlscamps, and my favorite CANCOON!!!!! WEll i hope you have a marvalous summer.
Next week i go on trek but i won't have pictures sry about that.
Next week i go on trek but i won't have pictures sry about that.
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