Llama Fest!!!

As some may know, I love llamas... I just think they are funny animals, but Josh says we can't own one (which I am now okay with). My friend Alyssa and I went to the Llama Fest in Spanish Fork this year and it was pretty funny. We saw lots of llamas and attempted to pet some, but they tended to not like me and walk away whenever we tried to get close. We were laughing pretty hard the whole time. Anyways, the best part of the day was after the llama show and obstacle course they had a LLAMA RACE!! I talked to one of the guys walking a llama and he said I could take it for the race, so I did. I was pretty excited because my llama (Rasa) seemed to be well behaved, it wasn't turning and moving a lot like the others so I thought it would be good... False. the race starts and everyone starts running, but no, my llama liked to walk slowly, very slowly... So as I was trying my hardest to get this llama to run she would have none of it and pretty much I had to pull her the whole way through the course. I came in dead last and the lady at the finish line told me to at least be grateful she didn't sit down. All in all it was pretty funny and I was laughing so hard that my abs hurt. It was great. Everyone should race a llama at some point in their life.

Here is a picture of me and Rasa... Alyssa has a video of the race, so if I can get it from her I'll post it so you can all laugh too.

University of Denver

Well, I know we have been bad at letting people know, so here is my lazy way of informing people. We've decided to move to Denver, Colorado for law school. Josh will start in August and I'll join him after I graduate. We are really excited and we look forward to living in a new state. If anyone knows any fun things to do there let me know! I've never been to Denver and I am excited to see what it has to offer.

"action shots"

For the 4th I took my brothers and cousins to Draper to hang out with family. They played a lot of frisbee and hula hoop while I had fun taking "action shots". Unfortunately I didn't get ones of everyone, but we had fun. Too bad the fireworks weren't good in Provo, but at least we had fun. I look forward to next year when Josh won't be working on the 4th, or at least I really hope he won't have to.

Sisters trip pictures

Lately we have had a lot going on. For almost two weeks straight we always had someone staying the night. My parents were in town dropping Conner off at BYU, Josh's parents were in town getting ready to go the MTC and be set apart as mission presidents, and my sisters stayed with us for a couple of days to hang out with me, so we've had lots of fun. I only have pictures though with my sisters, sorry, but I know my mom and mckay will like looking at some of them, so here are a couple.

Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House

This is how Maddy preferred hiking the Y... I don't know if you can tell here, but it was steep and Josh is running.

I know this isn't the best picture, but we made it to the Y, so I had to document it.

WE had fun exploring BYU and the duck pond. The girls didn't like all the stairs though.

Also, Fat Cats has free bowling for kids 12 and under, so they each got two free games, it was lots of fun.

thanks for coming to stay with us for the week. I hope you enjoyed your plane ride home.

Thursday Adventure

Thursdays have been my favorite days this summer because Josh has the day off and I only had my aerobics class, so we got all day to spend together. It was our Saturday. Since I didn't have my class yesterday we got the whole day. We decided to go to Park City. They have a lot of summer activities, but it is kind of expensive to do it all, plus it was kind of raining when we got there, so we weren't sure how much we'd be able to do, so we went shopping instead. After that we decided to go back to the mountain and see if we could do something else fun. We ended up taking a scenic lift and I loved it, and I think Josh liked the part when we got off at the top and then again when we got off at the bottom, but it was really pretty.This was the name of the ski run, but I think Josh was afraid it was the name of the ski lift itself.PC stands for Park City... I took this one for my brother though because when he was on his mission we called him the PC- the perfect child because once he left my mom suddenly forgot all the bad and annoying things he had ever done, she has since remembered... love you DD!!

Diamond Camping

We went camping on Wednesday and it was a lot of fun. Since it was a weekday, and since it was raining, we had the campsite all to ourselves! Well, it was us and some very loud cows. We bought a tent and all the stuff a little while ago, but we hadn't been able to make it out yet due to school, work, visitors, and being sick, but we finally made it and it was worth it. I am really upset though because my camera died after two pictures, not what was supposed to happen... The campground was in the Uinta forest and it was beautiful and green! The picture I have doesn't do well at showing how beautiful it was, but I didn't get anymore. After we woke up and paked up, we headed out on hike to some hot springs. It was longer than I had expected, but it was great! When we finally got to the hotsprings there was a family there, and since they aren;t big, we decided to keep going farther, we saw a waterfal and wanted to get closer to it. Lucky near the waterfall were more hot springs, so we had them to ourselves. The water was VERY HOT! I could barely keep my feet it for a second, but it was nice. I really wish I had gotten a picture of the waterfall and springs, but maybe next time. Josh said next time we go we are brining a wet suit and helmet, so he can go under the waterfall into a little rock cave we found. It looked like fun, but dangerous and very cold, so I was glad he didn't attempt it.

Anyways, it was fun. Now I am sitting at home finishing an essay for my American Novel class. I thought I'd enjoy this class before I took it, but it really didn't end up that way. I enjoyed some of the books, but I really disliked going to class. It was two hours three days a week of listening to my teacher talk with a southern Utah accent and tell us the most random stories and not much from the novels we were reading. I am glad this class is over. Well, I have two more days of it, but I can do that. I can't believe I only have one more term of school. I graduate in August and I am so excited! My little brother comes up next week for summer term and I am so glad I get to be here with him for a little bit before we leave. It will be fun, I really love summer! I hope everyone has a great summer!

Lani likes: sunny days (especially Thursdays because Josh is off work), eating ice, and enjoying wonderful cookies made by her husband

Lani dislikes: rude people, writing papers on books she doesn't understand, and "gardening" (really, it's just pulling weeds... no fun)

Josh likes: eating cookies, ice cream, and various forms of meat, having a nice looking yard and learning to fix things around the house, and relaxing and spending time with his wife

Josh dislikes: many of aspects of his job, the fact that we couldn't watch the basketball games due to fact that we don't have ESPN, when we don't have good food in the house