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Annie rolling across a lake. She thought it was too thin to walk across until Casey did it

me on the hike

On a hike with Casey

Casey the best brother ever took us up to Yellowstone!

I think we were pretending we were explorers. This was right after our grizzly bear noise making contest which Casey won

Annie in the process of throwing a snowball right into my face

Me and Annie

Yay we're at Yellowstone! but...

Dumpster diving for hostess

After dinner we went outside and played with boomerangs which was REALLY cool! Not that I ever actually got it to work, but it was fun to try

The host and hostess

I love this picture

Annie and the 'turk'. Luke and Elise are abbrievers

Me making pie crust with our classic rolling pin (two beer bottles taped together)

Luke in his uniform

Elise looking beautiful making pie crust

Casey at the duck point at MSU

We three

Me, Elise, Luke, Casey on Thanksgiving Day it snowed for us!

The wild wild west (those are elk)

Me and the old Subi

Casey with some snow that looked like a river

Annie and Eric pretending to eat Nathan's grandma's oranges

Salt Lake Temple with my big sis

Annie in Nathan's grandma's treehouse

These pictures are so beauitful they hardly look real, but they are!

playing at the beach

We finally got Eric to jump with us!

us girls

Eric, Annie, Leah, Liz I so wish it had been warm there so we could have gone swimming but it was freezing, even for us!

Liz, Annie, Eric

Annie and Leah having a ball!

Sunset at Newport Beach after the wedding.

We all figured this would be the last time in our lives that we would be in The Ritz hotel so we better take a picture! The valet parking boys sure thought we were weirdos because we would rather park our car across the street at a mall than pay them $3 to park it for us

The bride and mother of the bride

Bryce and Richard Gardner (Richard is the one looking at the camera). Rich served his mission to Alaska and taught Kaela, Annie and me

Eric Chase (just got back from his mission to Ogden a few months ago, it's good to have him back again)

Liz, Betsey, Bebop, all of the above!

Lincoln

the Valdez kids. There were only maybe 8 people there from Alaska!

The Valdez girls (minus Leah and Annie)

Everybody from the wedding

Kaela and Mark married for eternity

Leah and Annie

me in Nathan's grandma's tree house

That's right, my wonderful best friend came to visit me in Alaska!

squished faces!

My favorite person and me

Nathan, Me, together, happy

Nathan and me kayaking in a snowstorm. It takes a very special person first to want to go, and second to genuinely enjoy it, and Nathan is just that special! We got so close to sea otters and saw some seals and eagles. It snowed so hard we were kayaking through the slush that formed on top of the water. I highly reccomend it, but not to the faint of heart :)

This is us about 6 am leaving for our trip up a mountain behind town (Hogsback). We brought snowshoes, breakfast, and a sled and took the better part of a beautiful day to just be out in the wilderness!

Annie didn't eat before we left so she was pretty hungry. See that weird thing wrapped around her neck? I made that for her in highschool!

This is kind of how it was, snowy trail, pulling sleds behind us so we could sled down later

Daybreak. It was sooo beautiful and so worth the hike in the dark to see the sunrise up there

Our Camp at daybreak

Katie bundled up. We stopped for about 20 minutes and by the end all our toes were froze and our gloves that we took off to cook were frozen solid

Annie trumphant at the 'top' or what we were considering the top!

I so wish that white streak was a shooting star. Alas I think it was a jet plane

One of our many sunsets looking out into the port

This is what it looks like when the wind blows the snow off the mountains

Sugar Loaf (that's about how high the sun gets I thnk I took this picture about midday)

This is our little tree! We named it Nole at the suggestion of my dad, you know, it's kind of like Noel only its Nole!

My very bouncy friend Katie Bryson

Here's everyone who went up Solomon with us

Christmas Eve we and a bunch of friends of our parents took a walk up Solomon Gultch

Solomon Gulch night

Solomon Gultch night

Casey my brother, Annie my sister, and my dad at Brysons playing Farckle

Our little Christmas tree! Well it was actually a pretty big Christmas tree, so we ended up cutting some off the top and some off the bottom and when we finished it looked like the middle section of a tree because that's what it was!

Annie while we were cutting the tree down (I think this one should go in the calander next year)

My family skiing to get a Christmas tree

Nathan, Annie and me at Squirrel Creek on the way to Anchorage to go back to the lower 48

Ok these are getting redundant, but I just forgot to say that this is seriously one of the most beautiful drives I have ever been on, not to mention who was driving! I felt so blessed to be there and I recommend the East to anyone despite my extreme Alaskanism

And again, the mountains. I had the crop this one because My hair is blowingup over Nathan's head and it looks like it's his hair! The blue right by his head is where I failed to fix it and decided to crop it instead!

The mountains again

DC with my parents and Nathan

This is at the wonderful reception for Sandra and Michael. Everyone was thrilled that Nathan could dance and that he was so darn cute

This is at Dave Nanney's house listening to stories from Afghanistan with all my family who I know know! (that's dave on the right taking a picture)

I hear THIS is why they call them the Blue Ridge Mountains. Honestly, I'm not sure I've seen a place more beautiful.

The crew who hiked Stewart Falls: Bridger's friend, Mark, Bridger, Dave, Annie, Derek (Dak), Brandon (Freddie, he looks like Freddie Prinze Jr.), Brett

I decided to be brave and get close to this bee for once

Looking in Stewart Falls

Looking up Stewart Falls

The colors were really like this, I didn't touch this with an editor, it was so awesome

The trail was too perfect and serene to not take a picture of

The trail up to squaw peak

We three

John showing me how nice some dead leaves smell. I know, it looks like I'm eating grain out of his hand or something, and that's Dan in the middle with the tree coming out of his head, and Timp in the background. A few months ago this field was covered in flowers, but this time it was all brown, but a different kind of beautiful

Our best ninja jumps (Emily has a sweet ninja jump too she is just too fast for the camera)

Beautiful leaves!

Me, Dan, and John looking East over the real peak of squaw peak

John about to jump. Me scared for John's life and my own knowing if he jumped I would too. Lemming?

Me deciding if I'm really going to jump

For all those who have gone cliff jumping with me before, I jumped in record time! it only took me about 2 minutes of standing there to decide to go!

Me and John happy we're alive!

I like this pictures first because Cherie and Johnathan look great, and second because that's me climbing down the waterfall in the background

Me and Jessica in one of the picture perfect spots we found. Everyone else there was married so they would take pictures together whenever we had a pretty spot, then they took turns taking a picture with me so I didn't have to be alone, it was fun :)

Breakfast

Oh, were we ever jumping! The camera was on timer when we took this picture, it only took us about 12 tries!

The before picture! We never managed to take an 'after' picture. We sure were a piece of work, we drove all night, slept for an hour or two in the car and then hiked 10 miles. Needless to say, it was more than worth it

We were a big colder and tireder than we look, except for maybe Emily, she looks pretty cold and tired:)

First arrival!

The waterfall

The couples (Matt, Jessica, Emily, John)

John, on the rope swing!

Matt he wins the award for best poser in the air

Emily swingin'

Do we take our chacos off to swing on a rope swing? No sir!

Emily after a long day of hiking and being freezing in a waterfall, aaannndd she's still beautiful!

This is the little guy who was trying to eat our food (and ate some of it successfully). Emily and I chased him around for the better part of a n hour taking pictures

Hello cuteness!

Making dinner with headlamps and trying to hide our food from the weird lemur things

inside the cliff climbing down to the waterfall, I climbed down it holding my camera in one hand

View from the trail down the cliff to the bottom of the falls

Me trying to take pictures of the bats flying around the falls

John and Emily doing their heel-clicking thing!

darn this picture was supposed to go at the bottom! This is solomon gulch fron the back, that's suglarloaf on the right. The dam on the lake was overflowing like a banshee! The nice little trickle that make the waterfall we take the summer fun kids to was a torrent! The far side of that lake is where the pictures of me walking on the damm (later in my blog) were taken

The fam squeezed into an elevator

Us three after our cousin Mindy's wedding. When did Casey get so handsome?

Probably only Kaela will squeal with jealousy at this picture. We got to go to church with the Olkjers! This are the coolest little boys and girl I have ever known. Left to right: Logan, Peyton, Satch (holding the paper), Annie, Michaelin, me, Grant.

The first thing we did when we got home is went into the back yard and picked 5 bowls of raspberries! This took us about 1/2 an hour, I couldn't believe it. About every 3 or 4 days we pick like that. Annie and I made jam out of a few of them, but the majority go to making wine.

This was our crazy frisbee game the day after we got home. It was pouring down rain, and the soccer field was one giant puddle, but did that stop us? I think not!

Silly me, that's an iceberg not a salmon! No, we needed ice for the cooler, well first, we found a bigger iceberg, and what did we do? We shot it with a gun to make it smaller! Only in Alaska. Later we found this one and since I was already a pro at fishing for ice because I did it every day last summer, they let me do it. I've still got it in me.

filleting the silver salmon Annie and I caught. It's not a trip to Alaska unless you've been covered in fishblood

Just in case anyone forgot I am Sarah from Alaska, we shrunk Alaska so that I could stand on it. Don't worry though, we restored it to its original size.

Me walking on the dam at Solomon (there is a picture later of solomon gulch from the air, keep your eyes open for it). There's about a 6 foot drop on either side, one side onto razor sharp rocks tipped with poison and on the other side, into a swirling lake of near freezing water of death! Ok so it wasn't that bad, but the path was nonetheless 'strait and narrow'

Me jumping over a post on the spillway at solomon gulch. We decided to go geocaching with our dad and aunt Katie before we went to the pass.

This is me walking on the streambed to the tree of life (the one and only tree we saw on the whole hike) We're hiking Oddesey by the way. We started at the top of the pass and hiked up the ride more or less. It was foggy so we couldn't really tell where we were going, we just tried to keep going up. We ended up just above the stream the cat trail takes in the winter

This is Annie about where we stopped, you can just see the road making a hairpin turn on the left side of the picture in the clouds. We turned around before the top because a. it was super foggy b. we had run out of time and c. we thought we heard a bear and both of us looked at each other and said "good feeling gone", and we were out of there.

This was the route we decided to take back to the road instead of walking along the ride we walked up. Not the smartest thing we've ever done but it did get us out of the fog (and frankly I was a little afraid of getting lost). That curvy thing way down there by the lake is the road

Some flowers in the pass

This is the Valdez Glacier Lake, my dad, my sister, Bonnie and I went kayaking out there one rainy and windy day. The ice bergs were huge and mobile and we were trying to be quick and get between them, it was like being in a maze were the passageways were almost imperceptibly shrinking. My hands were freezing cold because, like I said it was windy and rainy so I didn't take many pictures. It was beautiful though, a great adventure!

That's Valdez folks! I wasn't joking when I said it's a little shelf of land between the mountains and the ocean. I wouldn't have it any other way

Doesn't that mountain look formidable? And don't we look like we're flying awfully close to it?

the lake right under the clouds I thought would be a perfect place to go camp or build a cabin or something. A glacial lake, so the water would be good, there was ice next to it, it's not far from the water, there's a flat green spot behind it, not to mention the unbelievably pointy mountain in the distance! Perfect!

a light bulb we found on the beach. We were puzzing over how fragile light bulbs are and how in the world one coudl have survived the storm and ended up on the beach intact!

Because it has been stormy for the last month with a Southern wind, the beach was covered in fun stuff! I tried to take home a perfectly whole little dead crab but dad said it would stink. He wouldn't let me even after I offered to give it to him! That's our little plane there in the middle. It should have a name, it certainly has character, but for not we'll call it 801bw (read 801 bravo wiskey of course)

A little salmon stream that comes out on the West side of the beach, I wanted to wade across it and go out to that point and stand on the rocks as the waves were crashing into them like the Little Mermaid, but the weather was rolling in so we had to turn around.

Dad and Annie on the beach, those clouds rolled in out of nowhere. We were walking around, dilly dallying, enjoying the beautiful day. We turned around and saw the weather and decided it might be time to head back to the plane. Once we got there Annie and I were getting situated and brushing the sand off and my dad said "girls, get in NOW we're leaving" so we hopped in and off we took!

Hook Point and the beach (where we were walking) after after takeoff looking East. Notice the clouds that were not there before.

This is is the gap in the clouds we flew through to get over the island, the way we came was completely covered. It was absolutely beautiful after we got through here

This was on top of Hinchinbrook Island after we flew under the clouds, it was beautiful! I could spend months there! As long as they were sunny months. We saw about 7 deer by that lake!

On my honor, I promise that I have not touched this picture with a photo editor, the lake was really that color. I don't know how He does it.

The spot of water in the middle is the Port of Valdez, we were flying home from the South through the mountains. I had never seen Solomon from the air before, the lake is HUGE! And there's a copper mine a ways back there I didn't know was there. If it wasn't nearly completely inaccessible I would want to go explore it, any ideas?

This is a picture of the pure joy at 4 in the morning when Annie and I were reunited! Yep, that's what pure joy looks like.

I wanted to keep this strictly to weird pictures of me, or the closest to normal pictures I could find rather. This one though is so awesome when I found it, I couldn't help putting it up too. This is what I did on spring break my senior year. That's what March in Valdez looks like.

So this is where it all started. This is probably my favorite pictures of me as a baby, my sleeper in unbuttoned like Elvis, and everything about my face is saying "huh?"

Annie is the cute one on the right, my dad is in the middle, and I am the weird looking baby on the left.

Me again, surprised! I never noticed before that my mom was wearing a flower. There are several pictures of me with that dinosaur...that's kind of weird now that I think about it

Lillian said she wanted some pictures of me since I was always the photographer, so we spent a whole night (from 11-2 or something) just taking pictures, and this one is the most normal we could muster

This might have been cute if I hadn't been trying to bite Chelsea's ear

My sister and I dressed up like our parents having dinner at my friends house, we even tried to sit on the couch like they do

Me asleep on the Spanish steps in Rome and Brian making fun of me. I hope you can imagine the potential for great pictures, the Spanish steps are beautiful. But do I have any? No, no I sure don't.

Chelsea and I before we dove into some salt mines in Hallstatt. We were wearing clothes over our clothes over our clothes and as you can see, we were darn happy about it!

This is Rome, Lauren and I were very lost and we decided to take a picture of how sad we were to cheer ourselves up. Out of all my Italy pictures, this is probably the most normal

This is in a former prison in Prague, I think I was being imprisoned in my bed at least for the moment. Look at that face, is that not the face of a prisoner who has learned her lesson?

My best friend Katie and I at some dance in highschool. Instead of having our pictures taken like everyone else, we found this big wooden thing and just took our own picture! It kind of ruins the intended effect of the board, but fits nicely into the plethora of odd pictures of myself

This is my coming home from Europe the second time. No joyful reunion with my family pictures, just me sitting in the back of my dad's plane looking goofy

Ok this one was totally appropriate but still weird. We were staying in a hostel that had been a prison during the revolution in the Czech Republic, I must admit, I am proud of these, there's no better place for weird pictures than in a prison

The most famous park in Vienna next to the Riesenrad, a historical site. And here I am hugging Chelsea's feet

This was in Austria in a REAL Austrian restaurant in Salzburg, perfect place for a picture to remember forever. What am I doing? Holding a wooden knife and a giant beer mug (had water in it)

This was a beautiful hike I went on with some friends. The clouds made that shadowy pattern on the mountains, it was a beautiful bluestery perfect day, and what did we take a picture of? Me putting on my sweat shirt. Two thumbs up.

This was our job during the show. We were called the A-team (short for arial I think). during some of the slower songs instead of choreography we went for the more from the heart hand lit stuff. It was beautiful, AND we got to wear fireman's coats! The picture is of Nathan taking his turn

We duct taped/ace bandaged Amy's shins so that she could make it through the scrub brush down the mountain. This was us exhausted at the end the photographer, Nathan, came away unphased and unscathed. Go figure.

Amy and me again with the sunset

This was the end point of our mountain hike (also known as Squaw Peak which has certain connotations to anyone in Provo which I would like to avoid). We timed it so we we so blessed to watch the sunset over the lake, and then so blessed to half hike half tumble down the front of the mountain in the dark! I reccomend it only for the stout hearted and thick shinned!

Nathan in the mountains (where he belongs)

Amy and me in the mountains

This is the whole crew from Sarah's fireworks show (minus Danial taking the picture) That's Sarah on the right holding little Seth. Matt is next to her, Kevin, Nathan, and I are on the right, we four drove up from provo. The rest are Sarah's wonderful family!

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