Life According to my Iphone

What the last semester has looked liked:
























Piggy banks are hard to find, Neighbors with loud music so I gave them a taste of their own medicine, Pierre the praying mantis, glad to see my tuition is going to something useful.

  Creepy tunnel troll, art, football, Aggie Ice cream

Bicucling is dangerous, football, fortune cookie

 We beat Utah, Safety Helmet, Aggie football, Logan Mountains

Birthday Girl, Birthday Bike, Mud Run, I dropped the milk























Bucketball, Gus wants all the attention, I'm gonna be a teacher!

 Brian's new Hat, Take care of your body Peter, Coles and Me, Thai food

 Trying to keep warm, gang of turkeys, Football

 Beautiful sky, More football, Studying at the Library

PAWPELL Party (Popcorn At Work Party Extravaganza Lyndsey Landon Lindsey)

What I learned as a child...

I almost died this morning!!!

Apparently, Bab's brakes don't work when their wet and just my luck it was pouring rain this morning.

Normally it wouldn't be that big of a deal because I go through the cemetery........ Just not when it's dark.... (Call me paranoid but who knows what kind of creepers hide out in the cemetery in the dark!)

So instead of going through the cemetery, I ride down the hill a little ways until you get to the sidewalk which is at a really weird angle.  So here I am peddling to work, I can't really see anything because the rain is pelting me in the face, a car is coming up the hill, and my brakes don't work!!

Luckily for me I have had experience with this!  As a child none of my bikes had brakes.  And most of the places I rode my bike consisted of fairly large hills.  So what did I learn to do..... Put my feet down!!  At one point, my friends and I thought we were genius's and we attached roller blades to our feet. Not only did you get to bike and roller blade at the same time (two of our most favorite things), but the roller blades had brakes on them.

I'm not going to lie though, braking with your feet caused a lot more accidents!  I don't think a week went by without one of us crashing.

So this morning I am blind, wet, and careening down the hill out of control, and luckily my childhood instincts kicked in. My feet shot out and slowed me down just enough to make the sidewalk!!

Happy news, Thanks to a childhood of brakeless bikes, I made it to work alive today! 

Sad news, my shoes didn't make it :'(

Wanna See My Movie?!

At the end of August I ran in the Man vs Mud run.  I also talked my mom, my aunt Vickie, my cousin Kalon, and my friend Coley to run with me.  And at the last minute I talked Brian into it!!! To see some awesome pictures that my MIL took check out her post about it HERE.


For the race I borrowed my friends GoPro camera. This is the result..

Who wants to run with me next year?!

New Addition

Brian and I added another item to our collection of things!

This is my new bike

 

I got it for my birthday!

I call her Babs! I ride her to school every single day!

 

Soon I will buy this sticker for the back fender

That way when I run someone over this is the last thing they see! =D

National Park Palooza: Yosemite

Sorry this post has lots of pictures but I don't know how else to show you the awesomeness of our trip. So without further ado...... Pictures of our trip to Yosemite....


Brian's first look at Half Dome.

My "Heh, Heh, you really think I'm climbing that?"

Brian scattering sunshine in the woods

Getting our crap put together

My bag was a lot heavier than I thought it was going to be

This is what most of day one looked like.... Stairs
























More stairs

Waterfall

Waterfall and......Stairs!!

Me on the stairs

After we made it to the top of the first waterfall we weren't even half way...... So the second half of our hike looked like this...... 

Top of the second waterfall

Cooling down in the river

 My awesome blister

Purifying our drinking water... This was one of my favorite parts because it meant we were real woods camping!

 
 Brian in his Indian Woman pose

The double decker!!!

After Brian almost started the woods on fire, we finally got the stove under control and heated our water.....I was starving....

People climbing the chains and the subdome

Hey look day two and there are more stairs!

 Half Dome Cables

I freaked myself out a little bit

Ready to climb

If you zoom in you can see Brian and me sitting on the ledge. He wouldn't let me stand because he thought I would trip and fall to my death.

On top of the world.....Sorta

Pondering Life

Half Dome wildlife

Descending the cables

Made it up and down alive!!

2 Days of backwoodsy goodnes!! Mmmmm

Olmstead view of the waterfalls

These birds are so annoying!!

After two days in the car, and frying our brains in Death Valley, we arrived in Yosemite Valley. On the way in we saw a sign that said "Speeding kills bears" I laughed for a good ten minutes about that sign.....Why.... I think it was sleeping in an oven that ruined my brain!

Leaving Yosemite we had to stop and get one last look at the beast. I decided to gloat a little bit...

 Brian has already planned our next hike....  Cathedral Peak