Once upon a time...(be prepared for picture overload)

there was this awesome man that I met and we ended up spending a lot of time together. Which meant I spent less time doing things, like, oh you know, updating my blog. Then, for some reason, he thought it was a good idea to graduate and leave Provo. So we spent a summer cramming incredible, wonderful experiences into just a couple months. Here are the picture proofs that this has been a crazy fun summer...well the last month and a half of it anyway:

At the very beginning of the July, my family came up for a couple days! We just hung out, enjoyed 4th of July festivities, and ate, and hung out some more. One night we went to Aspen Grove to check out Ben's turf for the summer since he has worked up there for the past four months. It was so fun to have them here. I wish I had a picture of the whole fam, I missed that though. Janae and Nate came along too...Nate's cheesy smile kills me.

Love these two

And this one

and these two too

Stan and I had to do what we do best...roam the mountains. His car was putting up a valiant fight and willingly went where Stan drove it. 

The first of these drives, there were these cattle, and one little calf got right in front of us on the road and would not go away. Stan was so frustrated because he didn't want to chase the calf too far from the rest of them, but it wouldn't stop running down the road. He finally got it to go a little up, he got out of the car and chased it. If you look close in the second picture, you can see Stan on the right chasing the calf off the road. It was probably funnier than it sounds...

One of these drives was absolutely nutso! It was like driving in a river bed for five hours. We were expecting a couple hour drive. That turned into a sixer. Yikes. Even though the car broke down, we lived and made it home in one piece. When the road was way crazy, it was super funny to watch Stan. He would stick out his tongue in a fixed determination to master the road. He did a mighty fine job.

We went on an awesome trip to Idaho and spent a couple days with Stan's family doing fun things like canoeing down the Snake river, biking in Sun Valley (from Hailey to Ketchum), shooting off fireworks, and just having a good time together. It was such a wonderfully fun time! The Moore's are sure wonderful.

A view from the front porch in Filer, Idaho. I don't think I've experienced a bad sunset there. I love the farm :) 

A little trip over Galena Summit to Redfish lake :) 

There's many a strange thing you can see in Ketchum, Idaho...here's just one: bikers...I don't know why we didn't find bikes like this for our ride.

We went on a trip to the pine forests of Arizona for my family reunion. Ultimate fail at taking pictures...but here is one from our ride back of the awesome sunset and silver lining! I love roadtripping it with my brothers and Stan :)

We went to the Payson Salmon Supper and had the most delicious salmon dinner ever created! (sad story is that I ended up have it come back up and I don't know when I will be able to eat it again...hopefully soon!)

One last drive up and over the Nebo Loop on Stan's last Saturday here.

On Stan's last Sunday we had one last Life episode with some of most awesome friends. This was a fun Sunday evening tradition learning about the incredibleness of the creations around us. 

On Stan's last week, with great concern for his ability to actually make it to New Mexico in this trusty ol' car, we spent our last Monday night looking at cars. The salesman was kinda funny in that no matter how many times we told him we wanted to look at Ford's, he tried to interest us in anything but. Stan persevered though and has an even trustier new romper to explore in!

And then...

On Stan's last morning, we went for a walk down the Provo River Trail like we were apt to do. I decided to bring a little snacky-snack for breakfast and grabbed some juice, bagels, and cream cheese from the store. Well, we we sat down to eat our breakfast, I pulled the deliciousness out of the bag only to find one slight oversight in my cream cheese selection...

Salmon flavored cream cheese and blueberry bagels are not a desirable combination for breakfast...nor ever I would submit. It was only even more funny because of my salmon mishap just the week prior! Bleh, gross!! 

The whole family on Friday morning graduation stuff

And then, he left :( So I've been trying to stay mighty busy, at which I have been quite successful. From family, to work, to church I have stayed quite busy. Here are a couple of pictures from these adventures:

A few of us cousins went up to visit our cousin Neil and Megan and family in Bountiful one Sunday night. It was absolutely beautiful and this cute girl and I played princesses. We even danced do our own music at the ball! 

Ben had a birthday so we had to go out and celebrate!

I bought new Chacos...it had been a long time :) I love them.

Ben and I went on a little exploratory hike so that I could be ready for the week long camping trip that I had the last week in August. It was fun to just hang out with Ben and to explore the beautiful mountains! 

I got to go see a dear friend/old roommate of mine, Minta. It was so good to reconnect with her. What blessings I have in my life with the people that I have known over the years!!!!

So as always, my life is still sweet as ever :) I'm excited for even more adventures!