Hawaii Trip!!

Our family trip to Hawaii was a blast! It was so nice to see my family as well as the Clarks. We had tons of fun and got lots of sun!! I had too many pictures to choose from so I decided to try using a slideshow, hope it works. So here is our fun trip to Oahu and Kauai! Enjoy :)

The big 20

So today was my birthday, Hooray I'm no longer a teen!! I had an awesome birthday! It was hard to be away from my family and friends but I was well taken care of. I started the day off early and went into the city with Ejona. We got breakfast and shopped around Chinatown, Little Italy, and Union Square, it was tons of fun! Then I got home and we had a BBQ for Memorial Day and also celebrated my birthday it was so sweet of them to include my birthday. I got a cake, balloons, presents, and lots of attention what more could a girl ask for! :) Thanks everyone for making my birthday so great!!!



I love my smoothies!



My gorgeous flowers I got from my friend Tyson!

Brianna and Teressa had fun in the sun.

My birthday cake from Cold Stone, DELICIOUS!!

Brianna made me a beautiful birthday necklace that I had to wear for my party and what she says goes!

I got the birthday song and the candles :)


Chloe sure did enjoy the cake!

The time is coming....

Its now official my time in NY is coming to an end... I have a one-way ticket back to Utah! August 8th is the day. Its definitely a bittersweet thing. I am very excited to come home to my family and friends. But at the same time I am leaving my second family and new friends who I have grown to love and respect. Its going to be so hard to say goodbye, but new chapters of life always come with goodbyes. I have loved my time here and it has been the best experience of my life!!

Happy Birthday Rachel!

Its Rachel's birthday this Sunday so we decided to get together early and celebrate. A group of us girls met at the ferry and went into the city for dinner and a movie. We ate at Max Brenner (my favorite!!) and saw 17 again! It was lots of fun! Happy Birthday Rach!!


Rachel blowing out her birthday candle with her white chocolate yummy!!


Our whole group, starting from the left, Lejdja, Fatbardha, Ejona, me, Christy, Natalie, and Rachel.


Natalie, Christy, me, and Rachel were the only crazy ones to stay out late enough for the movie, I think we got home around 3! :)

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!! I had a great Easter this year, although I do miss home and the traditional Easter I am used to, it was a fun and different Easter this year. I went with the family to the Hilton for Easter brunch. It was delicious! We had a great time and lots of good food!


The girls and I looking gorgeous in our Easter outfits! :)


Bri and me pulling silly faces, funny how she will look at the camera this way not when we just want her to smile, go figure!


She got mad and told me I had to make the same funny face as her.

Lou had the camera and decided to just start taking random pictures.

Before we stuffed ourselves.

So here is what the Easter bunny brought me this year (I was my own Easter bunny) didn't he do a great job?!? :) I love it! Lou calls it my smurf suitcase haha.

I was able to take Laura and the girls to my ward breakfast and egg hunt on Saturday. They had a lot of fun and I was so glad they came with me! I was sad I didn't get more pictures!

Here are the backs of Brianna and Mikey (Brianna's cousin) we do a lot of playdates with him, he and his mom came with us too. They were too busy looking for eggs and wouldnt't turn around to look at the camera.

Coney Island!!

This weekend I went with Laura, Lou, and the girls to Coney Island to see the Aquarium and while we were there Laura and I went on the famous Cyclone! The girls had lots of fun at the Aquarium and Laura and I had lots of fun on the roller coaster :) we got lucky with the timing, this was the first weekend the roller coaster was open this season so we timed it just right! We saw lots of cool fish and animals at the Aquarium, Brianna's favorites were the penguins and the sharks. We watched sea lion show and I even got a kiss on the cheek from Oscar the sea lion :) it was a such a fun day, here are some pictures of all the fun we had!!


Here is the famous sign of the Cyclone Roller Coaster that is in a few movies!

There is only one car going and it is chaos trying to get on the roller coaster, they dont have the rows divided by bars so just like everywhere else in New York you have to push your way through to get the seat you want on the roller coaster. It took me and Laura about 5 runs to actually get on, it was crazy!! Not only that but you can pay to re-ride and they don't make you get off and go to the back of the line so most people stay on and go 2 or 3 times.

Me and Laura ready to go! Laura was nervous the whole time and I as usual was as exicted as a little kid on Christmas morning! :) The seats are so padded that we barely fit together you have to climb on the seat to get in because its such a tight squeeze, most people have to ride as single riders.

At the Aquarium they have a Planet Earth 4-D show that we thought we would try. Well.... it did go over so well, the girls only lasted about 5 minutes before they were both hysterical crying because they were so scared, it was so sad!

Brianna loves to eat and hates to share as you can tell.

Here is Oscar the sea lion, I got a kiss on the cheek from him because Brianna really wanted to see him give me a kiss, so I went along with it... well it was wet and smelly to say the least! :)

Oscar was quite the dancer, it was cute.

The girls and me waiting for the show to start.

Brianna and me in front of the Coral Reef Exhibit.

Its almost impossible to get Chloe and Brianna to look at the camera in the same picture.

Brianna's penguins.

The lazy sea otters.

The fat walrus.