a tall personality

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 :)