Well...I'm pretty proud of myself....because it's only been 5 months since I've updated....see, I'm getting better!

I can't decide if I should do old to new...or new to old...but, 2nd's always best...so I guess I'll do new first!

BOOYA!

Well...We got some baby chicks!

     IceBlocking:

     
Part A ^
    
    Part B^

"Oh where, oh where did my ice block go?"

Fall Colors!

         
            Nick's Birthday! He's 23!

  We just add the numbers together....I think I accidently put 24 instead though...

            
                    "hi Dad!"

   Dad and Kelsey

           
                  Nate and me....

   Attempting to swing dance with my Dad!

        
                Megan and Mikeal breaking it down.....hard core!

                 
                   MIKE CAN'T COUNT!!! hahahaha....       

       
     We took a trip up to Estes! My brothers, Nick, Nate and me   

  
    ...with Nasser and Suzanna too!

             
                      ...we're pretty much family!   

 
Game night...at my house!      

      
          Card tricks!

            
             I love Amanda and Allegra!

Transition...

....got some hairs cut!

Court of Honor for Andrew:

 ...little Chase got some eggs that day!

    
       Just sitting!

                  
 "Cheese Cake!" ....it's what all the 4 yr olds were saying when getting their pictures taken...

Paige showing off her guns!

      ...the brother wanted a picture too...

                    
                              ...together now!

 
....awww!

 
   Laura, Anna and me before church!

           
                 ...hmmmmmm.......

             
                Last day of work! Josh, Mike, Anna, Mikeal, Alesha

    
     SWIMTIME!!!!!!

What I looked like before swing dancing and getting hit with 2 eggs...
         (that's my Japanese covered closet behind me...!) 

....random!

      I went to the Nuttings house for a weekend!!! So fun!

....went to the the store...and each bought our own Ben and Jerry's....
....well, Hopey helped pay, cuz she's cool like that!

    Formal Dinner...with girls only!  

                 
                      We made a huge amazing meal...dressed up...and had a 
                      candle lite dinner on the balcony! 

My dad's 50th Birthday!!!

A Ballon Ride!

       
            From our back yard!!! ...at 6am too....
       (this is my back yard for those of you who have never seen it!)

ooo-la-la!

                
                    ...how can anyone not love the mountains?

This is my log house...again...for those of you who have never seen

     
     ...and my front yard...and chicken coop...and yada yada yada...

           
 So...Mike's REALLY bad at making fires....it takes him FOREVER!
     p.s. muffin wrappers don't help!

 
 
Anna had to help me grill them...cuz the angle was hard...

           
              Mike, Anna and Ben!

     
     Some sweet looking trees...taken while sitting in my chair

HSLT!:

I learn...a heck of a lot...a lot about serving...and haha...swallowing my pride!

Chilling...

...deep conversations...haha

Boy scouts singin their song....about dying gruesomely after ropes course

Amanda...(top leg) got kicked playing soccer...me (bottom leg) did this running:

Somewhere in the middle...I tripped...but I don't have a picture of tripping....

Swelled up about an inch...pretty...hard core...hurting-wise

Sharing God's blessings, and how he humbled me
                     
                        Anna and Alex...

 Some guy I don't remember the name of....and CHELSEA 

    Manda and me...

We...have a good time...

              
                     My Sarah-a Bear-a

               
                         Johanna and me!

       Lauren the hotty! and me 

   The rapper guy...pretty neat if I do say so myself 

                                  
                                     Alex...viva la Mexico  (he's from Monerray (spelling!?))

    Yay for us! Mike, Amanda and me 

   Amanda and Mikeal! Two of my favorite friends!

   Boo ya for the workers! I worked with these 3 all summer!

           
                ...I cried when the Parsons had to go....Jake, me, Sarah, Kelsey and Amanda  

More work in between...

Girls State!!!:
So much freakn' fun! Met some amazing people...and had a GREAT time!

        
                the city of Baby Doe

Our fearless leader...Smitty! 

 Chrysandra, Lindsey, me, Elena, and Kelsey 

    ...sitting in our row.... 

              
                    ...we were only playing under the stage...

    ...bawhahahaha...I don't think our counselors even saw us doing it
  from 10 feet away...slightly...obilivious 

   ...yeah....we're cool...we know 

I had to go up on stage to take this one... 

...in our session deal-e-o 

                    
                    A serious matter...spitting gum on a sidewalk!

                                             
                                               begging for support

Heck no...I don't chew gum...that's why my bill rocks!

     
     hmmmm.... 

   Barky! Freakn' awesome person! 

   Kristen Hughes...related to a black poet...just kidding...
(she told me that when we first met...and I believed her...ahhh! My gulible nature) 

    Elena sucking her thumb while sleeping...just kidding

  Chilling in the FUN room 

We had a SWEET flag ceremony!

Talent show night! ....boo ya!

...It's amazing how girls act when they haven't been around a guy in 6 days.......

The last night we all dressed up....it was pretty awesome!

...me, Barky, Elena, Lindsey, Chrysandra, and Kristen
   (...pretty much the coolest people there!)

Western State College! "W"

   Last photo....for last day!

Went to Estes Park...just Anna and me..and no make-up...we're cool like that!

          
             Soooooo PRETTY up there! 

I went to NC...but sadly...I didn't have the digital with me..so I think the pictures still haven't been developed...

May was cool...but I don't think I have any pictures from it...My friends
all graduated...and I didn't really do anything cool that month.

The rest of Prom pictures:

 RC Sproul smiles!

Two of my FAVORITEST people!

  
       Allegra and I @ school...good 'ole days! Our shirts say: "i'm with Kirstin <---" 
     and "I'm with Allegra <---"

                 
   Crazy Hair Day....at school...I took this picture at sunrise-ish so the sun was super bright!

Well, I'm finally posting....7 months later...Let's recap:

 ...so this is only up until April 10th, I'll add the last month...some other day...maybe some months...hehe.

TeenPact:

  
    Staffer Girls....

     
                                     Lovelanders!

     Brent, John, Boe

       
                         Brent and his tea...

             It's a tea party!

      Prom 2006: (more may come...)                
  David and me

 
   hehe...we didn't know what the other person was doing...

   Kelsey's Birthday!!!

  That was pretty much me that picked those candles out...but hey, she was turning 13...

Hawaii!
   a few pictures of the trip:
            haha...airport..2am

    ...a quiet time along the water...amazing!

     Kelsey opened a coconut...haha...
       
   Diamond Head...well, the stairs to get there...

   The secret lagoon!! ...saw whales off the coast here!!!

   hehe..we found this...

The secret waterfall hike...
       
     haha...no I didn't end up touching the tree with my tongue...but I definitely didn't realize how close I was.

     Chickens!!! They were EVERYWHERE...that and slug bugs..haha

    Funny story with this resturant...ask me if you really want to know...

   I attempted to hula...it was hard...!!!

              Basketball formal dinner:

  Winter Dance....or something:

 Hard Rock Cafe!!

             
              We took the light rail!!

 Kris singn' to "I Love Rock n' Roll"

              
                  Kaylee!!!

   
            David and Doug

   David and Will

   
    David, Andrea and Kris

Dancing:

Lindy Hop dancing! This was so incredibly fun!

  
 I attempted to show Nick the moves....he's pretty good!

         
           Awww...we're so cute...just kidding.

      
         We dyed our hair! BOO YA!

Basketball:

 So I'm pretty much a nerd! Laura and I for a home game decided
to look as weird as possible. So we put our hair up so that it was
ontop of our head...and just kinda stuck out. and then we painted
out nail "Sun Fire Orange." It clashed amazingly!

    
Seriously...it's an amazing drink!

 On the way to a basketball game! ...Abby, me and Laura!


Italian...almost every time..

    
    Jeremy, Ali and Coach!

Sleep time!

Random:

        
        Who knows....but I still think he's cool and fun!

 Nate...turning 1!!!! just kidding....20!

  
L to R Ellen, Mikael, Robert, Nick, Dad, Nate, me, Grandma, Kelsey

A hike (to a pretty lake):

   man...my brother is amazing!

Christmas! ...no snow...shucks!

   A week before Christmas, we went up to the Nuttings house with the Thomsons and snowboarded and messed around all week...I pretty much didn't take many pictures...but we had a great time!

you will never know how much grief I recieved
for taking this picture...

               
At pizza hut!

        
     uhh...we're very capiable of self-entertainment.

  Some of us slept...others just messed around...

  ...and more messing around...

T.A. Christmas Party!

    
     The top woman and her outfit...and prizes I guess too...

 and the winners...

            
               Yeaaah Baily!

   
    Bekah and friends....

                         
                            Sadie and her "whoopee cushion"

 
 White elephant...Elyse's crazy lamp...

                       
                         My who-like hair...

 Practicing singn' for Christmas service...or rather attempting to practice.

            
               Imagine the coolness factor with sunglasses...
                       in Sunday school too!

    
              "yup, I love you!"

  Look at those adorable faces!

They are seriously...too cute!

                            
So my mom bought this crazy face cleanser....and Kelsey and I thought it was pretty entertaining. When we realized how awesome crazy it looked...mainly cuz it looks like your face is sheding, we took a picture to share!

        
             Thanksgiving!

        Nate's school USAFA vs. Army game

The cadets!

       
          hehehe...push-ups...ye-ha!

and the cheerleaders...

They most definitely love making fun of Army with
their arms...haha, it wasn't uncommon to see them
randomly flaying(spelling!?) their arms.

hahaha...I only take forever to do these...so attempt to enjoy my once-every-3month post!!!

Mall Fun:

  Modling...some random gun glasses...

and the hats....

   Civil War Ball!

This was right before starting the "lessons" ...we were mostly excited.
(Tasheena, Alyssa, Kelsey, Liz, Luke and Hopey)

Luke will forever be...Luke I guess!

  The joys ...and laughs... some friends will always give you!
(Kenyon, Fuzz, Luke and Josh)

    ****Dance....attempting to dance....learn some more....and some more....
super embarrassed by now....attempt some more....a good try...dance...
and some more....and stop!*****

    Lunch break!:

  Us...various people, enjoying lunch because our parents never feed us anything....
never....anything!

Decor-ating time! ...haha...we only got in trouble twice for some stuff.

   ...one example of our not so smartness...but way funness for sure!

 Oh how PERD-I-FUL!!! Too bad my dad was WALKING when deciding
to take the picture...haha.

Yeah, Kenyon pretty much thought he was the man for standing in our picture..hehe..no, he's the man! haha

     Me^    and Liz^   and Hopey^!!!! whoo hooo!
(too bad all three of us are looking at a stinkn' THREE different cameras!)

Tony and I pretty much schooled everyone in this dance...
haha, no! we had no clue what we were doing!!!

         You pretty much will never know how hard it is to pose like this *during a dance* until you try!

Lets just say...I don't always smile nice for pictures...

Haha...I love them!

     We're just working on our faces for the next up coming play.

Probably....like the hottest group (minus a few) ever at the ball!

hahaha...one of my favoritest pictures....if you can catch my sarcasm...hahahhaha..man, I need to move on, it makes me laugh too much!

   Tyler and I...great memories with that kid!

        
         Pretty much....we're wack-0's!   (Jake, Fuzz, Kenyon, me)

hehe...lets just say "we attempted"
to dance together...didn't work
out like smoothly..haha...oh well

               "Beautiful Girls....you're such a lovely picture!..."

Dad and Kels...aww....

would any of your friends go to a ball wearing a gangsta headband?

The guys didn't even come ask us to dance....haha...we were posing...but
man, we really do look depressed!

          Parsons!

   Our 'lil group!

     Hahahaha...I love my friends!

  S.A.L.T. Bowling Night! So...pretty much it's like a youthgroup but not.
Um...I suck at bowling also in addition to this info, but I had fun anyways!

     My bowling buddies! WHOO HOO! We had tons of fun!

               Jacob tried to make his bowling ball better...didn't help though.

Jarod! Our first bowler!!!

      Parsly or Jakey....the bowler...

...and I can't remember Andrew's bowling name!
Something like sasaple...or something weird like that.

                           
                             James: Chex

  Couldn't decide which ball I wanted to take a picture with....haha.
My name was pretty sweet...(look below)

  
    BAWHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA! The bestest name ever! (Mikel had to score that one for me so that I could take a picture
of it...I messed it up the first time...hahaha...it was a fun exprience
just trying to get this picture!)

           Steven is a very funny kid...haha...makes me laugh!

Hangn' out...   

      Attempting to roll the ball to the other end...I actually won
       a free game of bowling! haha...by accident.

1st game I score an 74....2nd: 115(thanks to Mikel's 3 X's) haha!

 Yes...I know I haven't posted Japan, backpacking or my vacation yet....but I happen to be in the mood of posting some actually recent picture(from today...whoa! kinda crazy I know...control yourself...I'm sure you can) (Okay...besides the fact that I'm dumb...here ya go!

   Benji...the Pirate, and Andre impersonating Waldo!

   Rachel(being a cute girly pirate) and Benji!
    (Love the socks Benji!)

 This is my friend Ross:

       This is my friend Ross with a mask trying to drink:

   Still trying:

  Sandwiches are pretty hard to eat with a devil mask on as well:

The knife was just an added prop.

                Chanel, Rachel, Ashley, Amanda and Geri
       Chanel was a cat, Rachel a pirate, don't know what Ashley was, Amanda was a fairy, and Geri was a bumble bee!

all for now...I'll post later...maybe...hehehe!