fast sunday, Ryder, Photo, and some good cookin'

Yesterday was so excellent!! {even though i had a sore throat!} I am going to try to start being better about Sundays. I hear everyone saying how wonderful their weeks are going by not doing anything they normally would do on Sundays like homework and the computer etc. I don't think i do anything necessarily bad on Sunday, i just am thinking i could be better.

So, yesterday i did some really good things. I read my scriptures, i read like a third of my favorite book, i cooked a nice meal with Betsy, i went to church, and went to ward prayer. It was the perfect Sunday!

My favorite book- Dusty Britches, by Marcia Lynn McClure. I would definitely recommend it to you. I find that i become a big sap after i read it though. I hate it when i am done because i just want to read about Ryder and Dusty a lot longer. I find that I wanting to talk to myself while i read this book. I probably look like a lunatic but it's not a big deal. :D

this is me nearly 3 years ago with Marcia. Love her.

I'm done with my photo portfolio!! woohoo! so now, the only thing standing between me and being done with my first year is my final critique on wednesday morning! :D

Betsy told me that i should do the Julie and julia blog thing because i cook so much lately. Too bad duck and all those other things are ridiculously expensive! Maybe i'll do my own version. I think next school year i will try to make a new recipe once a week. {not this summer because i'll be home and am going to take full advantage of having mommy cooking for me again. :P}

this is Garlic and lime chicken fajitas.

see the back left burner?? yeah that is enough rice to feed africa.

this is salmon. YUM!! it tasted soooo good! :D

I got a card from my grandma on saturday. It was for finals week. :D my grandma is the cutest thing ever! I guess my mom told her that i had a sore throat yesterday and i get a cute email from her too. here 'tis-

i just love her. She always types in all caps. these are the ways i can tell if it is from grandma- if we get a package in the mail and it is taped together with duct tape it's from grandma, if i get an email in it's all caps, it's from grandma, if i get a letter and her "a's look like this-

{that is the best one i can do but it's not exact}, it's from grandma. if there are american flag stickers on the envelope, it's from grandma. If it has cute little inspirational stories and quotes in it, it's from grandma, if it's a forwarded email, it's from grandPa! haha.

well, "i'm going to go.......shave". haha. name that movie.

-Brianna

Day threeee- just coulee dam

july fourth was a good good day. :D

us painting our nails for church
I got to go to church at my old building. the building that i was baptised in, the building where i first started gaining my testimony, the building i went to achievement days in, the building i miss with people i missed! One man, Brother Edwards is really sick and probably won't live much longer and i gave him a big hug and i was so glad i got to see him! He is such a cool guy! former deputy sheriff of the town. I played a musical number in sacrament on the piano and even bore my testimony, which i really should do more often. I seriously LOVE my ward there! I think i am closer to the people there than i am in my ward now. You will never find a better ward than that one.
After church we took the dam tour. (of the dam) It was fun, but i wish the incline elevator would have been working. the weirdest part was that there people in our tour from orem!! it was crazy weird!

one mile long

then we went back to my grandparent's house for a BBQ

us in our bibs so we don't get stains. :D my grandma thinks of everything!

and then we went to the city festival thing and saw elvis. :D

what a hunk of burnin love. :P
and we also went to the visitor center there and played with some of the stuff there.

then finally the lazer light show started!!! it never gets old. i've seen this show so many times in my life and i still love it! it's an experience like none other!

Right after the show the fireworks started! It's not the biggest show ever but it is cool to see them off the off the top of the dam. :D


after that we walked home across the dreaded bridge of death and some drunk guys asked us to go with them and we said heck no. It was a really fun time. lauren fell asleep right when we got home.


i love my gparents!


this is my old house. look at the old key!!!


Funny Quotes of the day:
"ugh! i bought the cigarettes last time!"-lauren

Senior trip day two-Missoula to Spokane to Coulee dam WA

I was a fan of montana but i was overly excited to go home (that is Coulee dam washington!) You can't even realize how happy i was! i seriously got teary eyed driving down the dam hill. It brought back so many memories!
But first we went to spokane and used the restrooms at the Davenport hotel! (2nd best hotel in the US and 5th best in the world!) It was so so so cool!! I forgot to mention sara giving us a lesson in italian opera by playing it non stop for THREE SONGS!! she lost her privilege of choosing songs. It was unanimous (minus her of course)

and we looked around and took ourselves on a self guided (and possibly not allowed) tour..... It was a grand place!
o also i accidentally slammed betsy's fingers in the car door.... :( sorry betsy!

then we went to RIVERFRONT PARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my childhood!!! we rode another carousel and my horse didn't even have a name this time!! for real!??? what kind of carousel are you running!?

Then we played on the biggest red wagon ever built! :D Jealous? i bet you are!

Then we went around the park and played with ducks (and tried dodging goose poop) and also ate our lunch.

Then we filed up with gas and we saw a morgan freeman look a like! heck, it was him! "we're so blessed." ha ha!
ON TO THE COULEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is my excited face

COULEEEE!! i love youuuuu!!! I was freaking out the entire two hour drive from spokane!
we went to spring canyon and swam!



and my friend charlie came too!!!!! the only other lDS kid my age that lived there when i did. (charlie may i see your back?! ahah!)



we jumped off the dock lots and

and played bad Minton too.


Then after our fill of the beach we went to the siam palace for dinner! yummy!! Best food in town! Grandma and grandpa came to that with us. :D

Then we got a tour of the town from charlie and went to several parks and places i never went to when i lived there! it was crazy! I lived there for 6 years and i could hardly believe i had never gone to them!






Then we went home to our trailer :D and hit the sack (after getting all the sand off of us from the beach.)
oh, p.s. we had a theme song for our trip that we played once an hour: "Your Love is my drug" I'm not really sure why we chose that one but that doesn't really matter. It just matters that we played it at least 24 times a day. ha ha! it was the best!

funny quotes of the day:
"I smell some delicious chipage!" -Sara
"you just blew my ear drums out! can you heeeeeeaaaare me????" -Lauren
"It says montoria..... i mean antiques." -Lauren
"YOU CAN SEEEEEE THE DAAAAAMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" -me :D "o, dam"-Betsy. ha ha!