this. week.

this week has been pretty great.  let's start with last friday.

>>friday

my niece got married.  i know, i know. you're thinking.  woah!  your niece?  what?!?!  haha.  yes, my niece.  her name is bethany.  and his name is london.  and they are. a.dor.a.ble.  

and because she was getting married.  my sister's family got to come from utah!  it was great to see them all.  :D

>>saturday

saturday was the reception in prescott.  we got to go up and it was super fun.  and beautiful.

bethany wanted these cute little i spy papers she found on pinterest, and i got to make them!

{i'm too lazy to flip the pic the right way.}
{there was a different paper, too.  but i didn't picture it apparently.}

here are some more pics:

{my nephew, bryce, and i dancing.  the little guys pretty hilarious.  but a sweetie pie.  he actually came up to me and asked me if he could have the last dance.  HOW STINKIN' CUTE?!}

>>sunday

i went to church, ward choir, and ward standards night.  period.

>>monday

video announcements began.  whole post on this later.

>>tuesday

julie's birthday.  being crazy with friends.  pretty much explains it.

>> wednesday

lots of homework.  and mutual!!! 

mutual. was. great.  it was a "modest is hottest" {you know it!} fashion show!!!!  all the laurel models were so sassy cute!  but before they modeled, we got to skype one of our leader's relatives.  and just let me tell you, he was a cutie.  a sophmore.  plays soccer.  pretty great right?  but before we skyped him, they had handed us questions on modesty and i thought i was just going to read it in front of the yw.  nope!  i got to go up to the computer and ask him, "when thinking about a future girl you want to take to the temple, describe what she is like in both appearance and dress.."  how awkward, right?  haha.  jk.  it was great.  he was cute. it was all good.

>>thursday

totally realized how much of a teen i am.  {i've been realizing this lately.}  i've been waiting my whole life to become a teenager, like my 8 other siblings..., and now i am!  and it blows my mind.  i went over to my friend rebekah's house for a science project and ended up staying there until, like, 10.  seriously the latest i've ever stayed at a friends house on a school night.  {other than one sleep over.}  what a teen.

>> friday

last day of announcements. super stressy.  hilarious.  and a bit embarrassing.  {like i said, more to come...}

also, my daddy and i went on a daddy-daughter date.  because i didn't really want to go to the daddy-daughter camp out.  {i know, i'm cray-cray.}  we went to the arizona sea life aquarium.  it was fun.  here are some pics.

there was this super old dinosaur shark jaw sculpture {at least i think it was a sculpture...}  and it was perfect for pictures.

{you have to give the shark a kiss, right?  hahahaha.  [dad told me to kiss it, so i did!]}

the aquarium happened to be in az mills mall.  and my favorite part of malls, is always the gumball machines.  {haha.}  i bought 2 and just had to get a pic.

and now my life and blog is all {or mostly...}  all caught up.  {sorry for the long post...}  it was a great week.

♥, sarah

p.s.  notice how i justified my post to the left?  i think i'm gonna try it like this for a while. 

another p.s.  happy late birthday nialler!  i was pretty busy with darn homework on your actual one.  :D

pics from cabin!!

{confused?!  see here.}

in the car!!!!

my guitar!

my favorite vaca snack!

what it looked like at first....

what it looked like half way there...

what it looked like almost there...

actually there...

and me playing the guitar like a babe.  ahahaha.

{look how concentrated i look, haha,  yup!  totally a babe.  lol.   it was the only bright pic i had, all the others were too dark.  :D }

♥, sarah

p.s.  happy weekend!!!  yippee!  3 day weekend.  thank goodness for labor day!

home sweet home!

oh goodness guys.  i am absolutely obsessed with my aunt and uncle's cabin.  it's huge!!!  and it's so nice.  i could live up there if they'd let me.  haha.  but anyways, it was great.  i talked with my aunts and uncles that all went up there.  and i played my guitar in the woods like a babe.  haha.  {so far, not very many people think i'm that funny when i say that, but i think i'm hilarious!  ahahaha.}  and then, my cousin, calla, came up and we had so much fun jumping off landings onto this huge beanbag, laying on hammocks, and looking at my seventh grade yearbook.  it was great!  ...but how's this to ruin it all.

i got sick.

  

i got the flu!  it was horrible!  i still managed to have a lot of fun with it, but my whole trip consisted of coughing, hacking, sneezing, hiding my cold nose under blankets and feeling so achey at some points i just didn't think i could move.  oh.  and then on the way home, my ears wouldn't pop the whole way, so i could barely hear anything.  and sometimes, they started to hurt.

but now, i'm home.  but still feeling sick.  so i couldn't go to church.  which made me sad, but that's probably best, because i desperately need a shower and i wouldn't have had any time to do that before church.  {we decided to stay until this morning...}

anyways.... pictures coming soon!  {not very many, the battery died.  :( }

oh well, i'll probably go get in the shower now.  if i can find the energy to do so.  

♥, sarah

p.s.  did i mention that every time i sneeze it feels like a death sentence?!  'cause it does.

cabins, posts, and laziness!

tomorrow i am going to my aunt's cabin and i. am. so. excited!!!!  i can't wait!  but anyways...  i'll be back on saturday night.  {and i'm leaving friday}  

oh.  and i realized i totally stopped on my pioneer day trip posts, so... screw that.  but...

i'm almost to 100 posts!!!  yee hawwww!!!!!  only 24 after this one!  yippee!

yup!  well, got to go pack now!  bye!!!

♥, sarah

pioneer day trip: day 1

so, my pioneer day trip {even though we weren't there for pioneer day...} consisted of lots.  {that i am going to be telling you about over the next few days}  there was a ton of cowboy, one direction, and missionary obsessing.  some hair mishaps and lots of teenage giggling.  oh and a whole bunch of eating.  {how i didn't gain a hundred pounds... i will never know.}  :D  here i go.

so, on thursday the 19th at around 10:30-am-ish.  my mum and i left to go pick up my cousin, shelbie.  after we got her in the car is when our trip officially started.  we listened to music and talked until we arrived at wendy's {somewhere around miami or globe, arizona...}  there is, obviusly, where we ate our lunch.  we then got back into the car and soon arrived at my grandma's place in pima.  {such a great town.}  the second we got in the house we got ready in our sunday best and left to the gila valley temple {which by the way is beautiful} to do baptisms.

it was great.  very different from the way the do it in the mesa one.  {even though, i guess i should have known.  this is the temple i did my first baptisms in.}  oh.  and it was my first time doing family names.

when we got home shelbie and i got in our pjs and decided to watch a movie in our room.  {she brought her portable dvd player.}  we picked out the movie inception.  so we got on our bed, got comfortable, and turned it on.  it was amazing.  by far one of the best movies i've ever seen.  very confusing, but i got it.  {with the help of asking questions....  wow those things are lifesavers.}

after that we pretty much just chilled.  and ate.

and i don't know what we did exactly, for like 6 1/2 hours, probably talking and tv watching... but we ended up going to bed at, like, 2.  it was pretty ridiculous.

welp, more coming up tomorrow!  and i seriously suggest watching inception.  just know it's pg-13.  and that some of those actors need to watch their language.

 ♥, sarah