"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -Albus Dumbledore

Sep 22, 2011

The Greatest Show On Earth...

Get Fired Up! It's the greatest show on earth! ...
Dan and I went to the Ringling Brothers Circus tonight with my fam. I think I was more excited then my neices. There were tight rope walkers that rode bikes across the tight rope, acrobats that did all kinds of flips over each other, trapeze artists that blew my mind, beautiful horses and ZEBRAS that did spins, and a circle of at least 12 tigers all around one guy that walked on thier hind legs and did tricks. And the elephants. Oh the elephants were so awesome. They balanced on tiny little cup things. One even did a hand stand. I wanted to be the girl riding the elephants and standing on their backs.

It made me think of Water for Elephants and I just wanted to go take care of one of the elephants and teach it tricks. Which PS. I loved that book and that movie. So good. I wonder if circus life is still like that.

We took tons of pictures on Dan's phone but for some reason none of them saved. boo. Oh well, best night ever!   

Sep 20, 2011

Texas Forever

I am eating Peanut Butter M&Ms right now. They are really hitting the spot. mmm.


This last week we went to TEXAS! It was fabity fab fab! I haven't been back for 5 years so I was SO excited! Our Evans buddies live in Corpus now so we went to visit them! Oh I love it there. I would love to move back some day, but I don't think I would be able to convince the boy I live with. We went to San Antonio for two nights but just stayed down town so I wasn't able to go up to my old stomping grounds, but it was just good to be back in the heat and beautiful south. and it was the BEST EVER to get see Whittney and Ryan. I miss them so so much and can't wait til they move here. (they don't have a choice). Last minute, a bunch of our other friends decided to come down too so it ended up being quite the partayyy! We went to Schliterbaahn Waterpark, The Alamo, the beach, yummy restauants, annnd I got to see Whitt's amazing boutique she works at! It was the best.











Ryan just wanted to go get some ice cream...




we made up a sweet game called CORNCCI- mix between corn hole and bocci. Vair fun game.



Our sand turtle RoseMaria


Breakfast in the ghetto. It was DELICIOUS.







We beat the boys SOOO bad at corncci. Go Team Texas Forever!



We ordered calzones and they brought out the biggest things I've ever seen.

I HEART RYAN and WHITTNEY. I HEART TEXAS.

Sep 14, 2011

oBorn to Run... FOR CHOCOLATE!

So I am mostly a bum. When it comes to working out I am the worst, I always find a reason to lay on the couch and watch Gossip Girl instead. However, I am proud to say I didn't back out this time. My two sisters, 3 cousins and I signed up for a relay race that we ran in a few weeks ago! It went from the University of Utah to BYU, so about 64 miles. It was split up into 3 legs per person so I ended up running about 10.5 miles. I've never done anything like that before so I'm so proud! My teammates are beasts, and all did awesome jobs. I have never been so sore in my life- I had to hobble around for a few days, but it was totally worth it. Turns out I really like running... after I am done running. While I am running all I can think is, "Why am I doing this? I haaattteee this." But I got the runner's high and I love it.

Our team name was oBorn to Run... For CHOCOLATE! So we all ran across the finish line with chocolate smeared all over our faces and chocolate bars hanging in front of our faces. Turns out it won us BEST COSTUME. success.

PICS!! (thanks for the pics to Katie and Sara Oborn!)




best costume ever





cool fanny pack

beautiful view


Sara the haas that ran up Suncrest! (3.5 miles straight up hill)

all hail!


rollin out the knots





This same weekend one of Dan's besties came in town! THE Scotty Youngberg! Dan was so giddy he could hardly stand it. It was vair vair fun. One night I came home and the boys had purchased hundreds of fake tatoos. I mean hundreds of them. They decided to give them self sleeves... and then some. I have to admit that it looked like too much fun and I joined in. haha.


just so you know, scotty had to perfect this pose in the mirror for quite a few minutes...

 

hardcore dan

please don't look at my zombie face
 We are so cool. Anyway, it was awesome having him here. I'm glad Dan got to hang out with his buddy that he never gets to see. I wish them Youngbergs lived closer!