Scenes from the Weekend no. 2

again.. this idea was inspired by busy bee lauren

I went to a chinese restaurant with my family on friday. I cracked open my fortune cookie and that's what it said... hmmm.

the tulips in my grandparent's garden. spring is here, guys!

April showers bring May flowers right? It rained all day Friday and Saturday here!

this was taken on my friend's Mac computer.. we all hung out that day and made cupcakes!

we also listened to music, talked about boys, and ate until our stomachs were about to explode. ;)

the sun finally came out on Sunday. it felt amazing!

these stupid suckers pop up in our grass all through spring and summer. they're cute, but not at the same time.

helloooo sunshine :)

this weekend was pretty laid back for me. on friday night I went to a friends house to play night games around the neighborhood and watch a movie. that was pretty fun.

on saturday, I woke up early to watch one of my best friends play in her tennis match, but then found out that the match was delayed 6 hours later because of the rain! man, what I do for friends... ;) (I didn't bring my camera, so no pictures of that!) after that, I went to chill with Sadie and Camber (pictured above). us girls could talk and eat for hours!! ha. that's probably not a good thing. it's whatevs.

by the way... my dad got the iPhone, so as you can see, all of these pictures were taken from his phone and edited with the app called Instagram (except for the ones taken on my friends Mac). I want that phone oh-so-bad. seriously. I basically stole it from him for the weekend.

I've also been taking some practice tests online to help me with my End Of Level testing that is coming up in a few weeks! ahhh. so nervous. so listen to this... in order to get the participation points for my practice tests, I have to get a score of at least 80%. the test I was taking was 60 questions long... ridiculous, I know! so I take it, and I click 'Submit', and what do I get? a freakin 78%!! that WOULD happen to me. sheesh. like I said.. ridiculous!

so yep. that's what my weekend was like. pretty exciting? not really. but it's alright. now I shall go to bed, to start the week all over again. :)

hope you all had a great weekend!

-kaylee

p.s.- sorry for not posting in what it seems like FOREVER. I'm working on getting pictures up from the rest of my Spring Break soon. thanks for reading!

Scenes from the Weekend

weekends are the bomb. I love them. who doesn't?!

I got this idea from Busy Bee Lauren. all credit goes to her. :) all she does is posts a few pictures of her weekend, so I thought it would be a fun idea to do here!

so here are a few pictures I took over this weekend...

I found a lady bug! official signs of Spring people!

she's running away!

bye-bye lady.

this is a necklace I got for my birthday. It has an eiffel tower with jewels, a heart locket, and a black little bow. I loove it!

I wear this all the time now. :)

it rained almost all weekend which ruined some of my plans. that's ok. the sky still looks amazing!

hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I don't have school tomorrow so I'm planning on doing a few things with my friends. :)

happy sunday!

xoxo,
kaylee

the little things...

have you ever realized it's the simple things that make you happy? well, today i was simply happy because of the little things. here are a few examples:

1. the rain. i just love rain! here are a few pics i took of rain drops... :)

i'm trying out a new watermark for my photography. what do you think?

2. general conference. general conference is when the leaders of my church speak to other members of our church. they're very inspiring, and i love listening to their talks.

Salt Lake Temple {credit}

3. movie night with friends. my bestie, kennedy, invited me over to watch a movie last night {saturday}. we watched when in rome. it's a chick-flick, which are always fun to watch! but i really liked the movie, it was cute. :)

{credit}

what made you happy this weekend??

p.s.- sorry for having a bad attitude about my blog the other day. i guess i just needed to vent my feelings. sorry about that! :/

labor day hike

 you may have noticed my new blog design! i used {this} awesome kit from summertime designs. i was getting bored of my old design, so i decided to change things up a bit. i hope you like it! i made a new button too, so be sure to grab that.

anyways, i also decided this post would have no capital letters. just for fun. random, i know. :o)

one more thing... you can still ask me questions on my formspring! don't be shy and ask whatever you want! keep it clean though.

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so as you know, it was labor day on monday. {well, if you live in the u.s.} i had a pretty good time this weekend spending time with my family and friends. on friday, i went to my high school's tail-gate party for our homecoming football game. after the party, the game started. our team won! we actually played the high school that my mom went to when she was in high school. what a coincidence!

saturday was very laid back for my family. we went swimming in the afternoon and spent the rest of the afternoon chilling at home.

yesterday, {labor day} our family and extended family decided that we would go on hike together. we met at a small town about 30 mins away from where i live. we went up a small dirt road and that's where we started our hike. the hike was pretty easy for the first part. but the rest of the way we were pretty much hiking in a river. not a trail. the water was about 40 degrees, so my toes were completely numb! here are few pictures of what the hike looked like: {just an fyi: i did very minimal editing to these photos}

this is my dad and my little sister, jaynee, walking through the river.

and of course, the one picture that i get of myself... is out of focus. oh well. it still looks cool in a way.

then there was a part of the hike where we had to climb up a log ladder next to this waterfall. it was very creepy, but fun at the same time.

after hiking through some more water and canyons, we finally made it to the top where the waterfall slide was. it was very cool! while we were up there, we took a break and had some lunch.

this is the waterfall slide. the slide pretty much goes straight down.

my dad and little sister relaxing after a long hike.

and this is my brother, kason, who you don't get to see much of because he refuses to get his picture taken. i think this is a good picture of him though. :o)

i didn't go to down the slide because it was way too cold, but my cousins and my brother did. here a few action shots:







then, we had to take the long treacherous hike back down the canyon! it was crazy, but totally fun. as you can tell from some of the pictures it was beautiful up there. if you ever get the chance to visit utah i recommend that you go hiking somewhere. it is very pretty around here. :)

so enough about me.. what did you do this weekend??

Happy Friday & Questions to Ask

You do not even know how happy I am that it is Friday. Let's just say that I've not had the best week ever, so this 3 day weekend is MUCH needed!

Since it's labor day weekend, I am hoping to get to do some fun things with my family and friends. I'm not quite sure what we are doing yet, but hopefully it will be good.

Tonight I have a few things planned. With my friends, I'm going to go to our high schools Homecoming football game! I'm so excited. :) Before that though, there is a tail-gate party that we're going to also. It will have food, games, and other fun activities. The only thing I'm not looking forward to is the heat! Afterwards, I might have a sleepover with one of my besties, Kenzie. We always find weird ways to entertain ourselves, so it should be fun!

What are you doing this weekend??

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One more thing I would like to announce:

I feel like you {my readers} should get to know me a little better. I've had a few more new followers lately so I've been thinking of way to have them get to know me more. Well... I've come up with a solution! If there is something that you are just DYING to ask me... you can ask me HERE at Formspring! {Or below} I would love to answer any questions you have. So from today until next Friday, you can ask any question you would like and I will answer them on a different post. So PLEASE feel free to ask anything you want. {Keep them appropriate though!} Sounds like a plan? Good. :)

What are you waiting for? Ask away!



Thanks, and have a fantastic Friday!

It's Friday!

My favorite day of the week! This week has gone by pretty fast for me for some reason. Which is weird because you would think school would always make things longer and more dreadful. Not this week, I guess. Don't get me wrong, I still have to do homework and it can be very stressful at times but it's only the first technical week of school. {Ok, I'm getting off topic here}

Anywhoooo, today has been a good day so far. Luckily, I got to school on time this morning because on Wednesday... I didn't. Oops. {Let's not go into detail of that day. Worst day of the week right there. Ugh!} I also turned in my first Geography project in on time today, which is always good. 

In my Foods and Nutrition class, we made some fresh salsa! It was really yummy! Then after school, I went with Kenzie over to the high school to see if she made it in the play... I will let her tell you guys that news. :)

My mom then picked me up from the high school and took me to the hair salon to get my hair cut! My hair was deeply in need of a hair cut. My split ends were horrible and my bangs grew out terribly long, so it was much needed. Wanna see the new do? Here's a pic:

Sorry for the bad quality. The picture was taken from my phone.

I cut off 2 inches and got a few layers to thin it out a bit. It feels SO much better! What do you think?

So later tonight I'm going over to my friend, Danielle's, house to watch one of our favorite shows. Big Time Rush. haha! The MOVIE comes out tonight, so I insisted on see it!! I can't wait!

So that's my fantastic Friday! 

Hope you all have a wonderful day :)

Quail Lake With Friends

Note: I've been meaning to post about this for quite some time, but I'm just barely getting around to it. Sorry about that.
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My friends and I have been talking about going boating at the lake for quite some time. Well, a couple of weeks ago, my good friend Camber, finally invited us to go! I was so excited!

That weekend, my friend, Kennedy, had to stay at my house for the weekend because her parents were gone on a cruise for the week. Anyways, on Friday night we were so excited that we were counting down the hours until we had to get up in the morning. Haha! We finally went to bed after long conversations about random things at one in the morning. {Shame on us!} Next thing we knew, the alarm clock was going off at 6:45 AM. 

We eventually got up, got dressed in our swimming suits, grabbed our life jackets, and headed out the door. We arrived to Camber's house around 7:30. That's when I saw Kenzie there too! We greeted each other with hugs, and got ready to leave.

After about 25 minutes, we finally arrived to the lake. This is when I started to get really excited. I haven't been boating for a couple years, so I know I was up for something awesome. We docked the boat, and before I knew it, we were out on the lake! The lake that we went to was called Quail Lake.

Unfortunately,  the skies started to look grey and gloomy. The waves were also really, really choppy which is not too good for wake boarding and tubing.

First we started off with wake boarding. Camber went first and then followed by Kennedy. After a while, it started to rain. :( So we had to dock the boat for a little bit until it stopped. We didn't wait too long until the sky had finally cleared up.

Kennedy wake boarding

Once the skies were cleared up, we docked our boat onto the water once again. Now, we decided we would just go tubing for the rest of the time. So we buckled our life jackets and jumped onto the tube. Once he started that boat, lemme tell ya... it was INTENSE!!

Left to right: Camber, Kenzie, Kennedy

I was holding on for dear life! Me and Kenzie were screaming the most because Kennedy and Camber considered themselves "pros". Psh. Anyways, after a while Camber and Kennedy eventually fell off after me and Kenzie. It was SO fun though! Although, the water was very choppy and not very smooth at all, we still had a blast!

Left to right: Kenzie, Kennedy Camber

When the rest of Camber's family came, we had to get off the boat because there wasn't enough room for everyone on one boat. We took the cooler with the food and laid our towels out on the dock. That's where we had a delicious lunch. :)

Kennedy and I

Me, Kennedy, Kenzie, and Camber

We put or feet in the water, and also found a random duck swimming near us. Haha!

Anyways, we came home that afternoon with blisters on our hands, aching bodies, and we were all very tired. But it was all worth it, and I would do it again any day! Good times, good memories.

Have you ever been boating or tubing?? If not, I totally recommend it!

Youth Conference

On the 30th & 31st of July, I spent my weekend at Youth Conference. It's a church-related activity where the youth {ages 12-18} of our ward went up to learn more about our church and build our testimonies. It was a great experience and actually had a lot of fun!

I took a lot of pictures, so here are a few to explain what we did:

I rode in the car with these two awesome girls. :)

We arrived to the Pine Valley Mountains and dropped off our luggage at the girl's cabin we were staying at.

Me, Ashlyn, and Danielle.

We went to the other cabin nearby where we would be doing all of our activities this weekend.

An OREO cow!!  :D These cows were so cool!

On our way to the other cabin, we stopped to check out these awesome Oreo cows!

Me on the tree swing at the cabin. I love tree swings.

Once we got there, we had dinner and a presentation about pioneers by an elder lady in our ward.

The awesome tree house.

The cabin had a huge grassy area with apple trees all over. There was a lovely tree house, tree swing, a volleyball net, a trampoline, a swing set, and many more exciting things to keep us busy. Oh! and they even had an "All-you-can-eat" ice cream maker! :D {I'm not even going to mention how many gallons we all ate by the time Youth Conference was over! It was a lot though :)}

The yard of the cabin was surrounded by these beautiful, yellow flowers.

I spent most of my free time on this very comfortable hammock. :)

The following day we woke up bright and early to start off our day with a delicious breakfast and a hike to the mountains.

Ashlyn on the hike

That would be me with my bright yellow bandanna on my head. {Except you can't see that it is yellow in this picture because it is edited in black and white :)}

We all received these awesome green, yellow, and black t-shirts.

Me and then Ashlyn with our wooden swords that we made.

After the hike, we came back and painted and decorated swords to represent our theme for this year, "Be Strong."
Once the craft was finished, we helped the cabin owners move some logs onto some pallets as a service project. With every one's help it took about 15 minutes! We then had a yummy lunch provided by the cabin owners once again.

The next and final thing we did was tour the oldest working church of our church in the world. {I hope that makes sense, haha} It was very cool to see how the oldest things still worked. I also felt really lucky to live so close to this church.

This is our whole group in front of the church.

After we were done at the church, we went back to the cabin and had a chicken dinner. YUM! We packed our things, said our goodbyes, and got ready to leave.

But before we left, my friends and I took so awesome jumping pictures on the trampoline just for fun. The only bad thing is was that the pictures were taken on Ashlyn's camera, not mine. So I can't share them with you. :( But you get the point, right?

Anyways, we packed our things in the cars and drove home late that night. We all had a great time, and I can't wait 'til next year!!

Thanks for reading. :)