For Me... This Is Heaven!

Today I decided to make myself extremely happy... I have a serious dream of becoming some kind of artist and I decided i needed to expand on my art supplies. So I went to Hobby Lobby (great store) and bought myself these...

I'm pretty sure this is a sign that I NEED to be an artist...

First Eye Study

Mouth Study

Experiment with texturizing (its a dog's nose... sorta!)

Well that's all for now... But Trust me there will be much more to come. I have to spend my free time doing SOMETHING!

Better Late Than Never

The fam and I took our annual july 4 trip up to the cabin. We decided to be adventurous and actually step OUTSIDE of the cabin this time. We got canoes and went to the lake!!! it was way fun.

Kourtney and her favorite sister :)

Our first adventure out on the lake

Payne and Kelli
Hoppin rocks
oh how cute :)
me, mother, and kelli

ok, so ever since I was little a tradition has been that everytime we go to the lake my dad would catch crawdads and put them on his ears. this time... I actually held one... sick. we named him crusty and if you can see this picture closely... he is saluting the camera!

This is my dad with crusty in his mouth... most of the time I am proud to claim this man as my father... this was NOT one of those moments.

The weather was GORGEOUS and the clouds were even more amazing

sweet baby Olivia

she was being quite SQUIRMISH in this picture.

ok... she is so cute. i love this girl.

There is a really cute video of Olivia on my sister KRISTEN ARNETT's blog that you should all check out!

That's all!

Playing With The Sisters

On Saturday my sisters and I went out to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory.

Olivia was READY to check out the MENU!

Kourt and Kristen
Kelli and I
Kourtney and her FANCY mango smoothie... it looked amazing
food shouldn't be this pretty :)
Olivia did not STOP eating the ENTIRE time.

Kelli tells us she got her ears pierced! Now I'm not the only one!

Olivia drinking water through a straw.. She couldn't figure out how to suck the water up so this was the next best thing :)

Once again, why is food so pretty? This was the best cheesecake I have EVER had.

After lunch we went shopping for a few hours. Olivia was not exactly a trooper. But it was a fun afternoon!

Cabin Trip

This past weekend we took our first family trip of the summer to our cabin in Forest Lakes. I was a loner and thank goodness Olivia was there to be my best friend. Honestly... i don't know if anything makes me happier that this girl. We took QUITE the photo shoot of Olivia's first time in the forest... Here are a few of my favorites.

it was pretty sunny at first... hints the awesome squinter below

playing in the clovers
being FASCINATED by a blade of grass... Found a friend just her size
very confused why she is being placed in so many different places
First pinecone!Best Friend

I officially want one of these :)

Bath Time

Welp, someone once told me that if you are unhappy it means you are ungrateful. So I am going to always try and remember all the wonderful things that I have been blessed with in my life...and hopefully it will help get me through the hard times. Olivia is probably the #1 thing that makes me happy these days. Anytime I see her I automatically forget about my worries.

She is getting so playful and so talkative and it's such a blast to

play with her.

This was bath time the other night...

she was a little obsessed with the seashells...

this hand motion plus a very loud grunt

is her new way of letting us know she needs something!

I'm A Slacker

Ok... i completely forgot I even HAVE a blog, that's how long it has been since I have updated. And unfortunately my life isn't exciting enough to post everyday/every week/hardly even every month!!! But my sister did "tag" me... don't really like that word... but anyway guess I will amuse her.

1- 5 places I go to over and over: FOPT (my job), MCC, my room, val vista and baseline (good food), and Chad's house.

2- 5 people who email me regularly: I get more emails from American Eagle than I do from anyone else... sad I know. But some others are Tina, Chad, .... nope that's it!

3- 5 favorite places to eat (along with my recommendations): I can only pick 5??? well here are 5 of about my top 20 favorites... Julios Too (Chicken tacos), Outback (chicken fingers with ranch), Paradise Bakery (BBQ Chicken Salad or club sandwich), Vitos (pizza... duh!), Casa Cisneros! (chicken and beef flautas with guac and salsa)

4- 5 places I would rather be: Chad's house, Disneyland, At a concert, On a beach somewhere, or in the audience at So You Think You Can Dance!

5- 5 T.V. shows {slash DVD's} I watch all the time: One Tree Hill (A-maz-ing), Rob and Big (life couldn't get much better), So you think you can dance (the fun has just begun), 24 (when it's actually on!) and the movie I think I have seen the most times and NEVER get sick of it is She's the Man.

Well since Tina, Chaney, and Katrina are the only people that ever look at my blog... I tag you all.

Sister Saturday!

Yesterday was Sister Saturday! Not really, I just like to call it that cuz we all hung out all day while all the guys were at priesthood session. Here are some pictures of what went on...

My little sister Kourtney made Taylor Jr. High cheer this past weekend and she is sooooo excited.

These are the BEAUTIFUL flowers I got her.. they are my favorite.

Kristen went rollerblading and let us babysit Olivia. Not going to lie, I am sorta OBSESSED with her. Her little eyes are to die for. Here are some pictures of us.

I would say 90% of the time she has SOMETHING in her mouth

I think she got a LITTLE tired of a camera in her face all afternoon. This is my new favorite picture. Olivia's first ATTITUDE picture :) Ok back to sweet Olivia. I want to keep her.

Kelli then came over and we all went and got PEDICURES at the mall. Kourt and I got the same thing, Kristen got pink polka dot tips and kelli got some kind of hawaiian flower! The peeps that did our toes were VERY annoyed with us and even tried to kick us out! "YOU GO? YOU GO?" was all we heard and they were pointing to the door. haha it was fun.
Kourt, Kelli, Me, and Kristen
We think we are pretty cool

Ok soooo remember how I am OBSESSED with Olivia? Well this is why.

ENJOY!