Monday Midnight Hike to the "Y"

So recently I moved to the Alpine/Highland singles ward. I love it! Our bishop is so awesome! haha I have a lot of friends in that ward and it is awesome! We have so much fun all the time! Monday night for FHE we had a bbq at the church and after about 16 of us got ready to go hike the "Y" Once we got everyone rounded up and got to the bottom of the trail it was about 11pm. It was so funny! lol I hiked it in freaking flip flops!

This is the beautiful view from the top once we got there.
This is Joe! He is the funniest person I have ever met! He is from Ecuador which is where Brad is currently serving his mish! Joe just got home from serving his mission in New Jersey! Hence the shirt!

Me, Colby, and Joe! On the way down I was sliding all over the place haha!

JULY 4TH! Happy Birthday Colton!

Happy 4th and Happy Birthday Colton!

The 4th was my little brothers birthday! He just turned 15! Sickening how fast he is growing up! He is such a stud though! He is such a great kid and I am proud of him! I love him so much! For his birthday I took our cousin Jadyn and her girlfriends up to Wallsburg to hang out with him. A big group of us (family/friends) went riding on the bikes, tyrex, and 4-wheelers! We had SO much fun haha! Everyone had such a blast! This is me getting anxious to go riding! We had to fix the tire first!

Nitro Circus! Its a State of Mind! LOL
Our neighbors had a huge party! They had a band, a mechanical bull, and catered by tucano's. Now I know why bull riders have such small butt's if any butt at all!

Me and Jadyn spent Friday and Saturday morning at the firecracker tournament in Heber supporting Mckaid and his baseball team! Go Dirtbags!

EWWW... SICK BRAD!!

TELL ME ABOUT IT.... Freakin sick right!? So Brad and I got on our e-mails Saturday at the same time which was pretty exciting for us! So we chatted it up for a whole hour! Brad was so funny! He kept saying stuff like, " Holy cow Shantell! It is like we are actually talking but not really..." lol and judging by some of his other comments you could tell it was pretty exciting for him haha! But who am I fooling? It was way exciting for me to! However while we were chatting he thought he would send me a nice surprise! Yes a freaking nasty, huge, hairy, grose, creepy, crawly spider! Just ask me how mad I was! haha! AHHH! I hate spiders! Brad is in a trio right now so him and his 2 companions caught a scorpion as well as the spider and put them in that plastic thing together to try and get them to fight. haha! It didn't happen though. They just sat and faced each other forever! He groses me out! lol! However, he did inform me that he wasn't brave enough to be the one that touched them. He just watched! haha! Good thing! I wouldn't want him to get bit! In less it ment he would have to come home... JK JK! I wouldn't wish that upon him! haha Don't tell!!

Much Love Bradley!(B-RAD)

SLUMBER PARTY WITH THE KIDS & TRACK MEET

Thursday, Jenna and Dalton decided they wanted to do a sleep over at my house and since I didn't work I decided what the heck why not? It has been a while since I have done anything with them. So they came over to my house and went swimming in my pool and sat in the hot tub. After we played at the park by my house. We ate dinner at Panda Express and after the kids got in the bath and washed up. We put on our pajamas and watched X-Men where we all fell asleep on the couch until Jace called me at 1:30 am which is the usual every night!! He is in Alaska so it was 11:30 and they had just finished their game. So I hauled the kids up to bed. They slept in their own bed but when I woke up the next morning all 3 of us were in my bed! haha! They are so funny! Since Jenna picked dinner at Panda, Dalton got to pick breakfast... He chose McDonalds. We went there and then to my aunt Michelle's house to drop Dalton off. I talked to Michelle and she had just taken her dose for her cancer scan so we had to stay a distance away from her but while I talked to her the kids were playing and next thing we know...

Daxton caught himself a snake! All the kids were having so much fun with it! haha! So we played with the snake for a while which was way fun! Then my aunt Shari called and Jenna and I had to run! We had Mckaid, Jenna's big brothers track meet to go to. Mckaid has never taken anything less than 1st! He is so stinking fast! He wins by 4-10 seconds every race and sometimes he wins by even more! He rocks! He is going to San Diego to compete and then to South Carolina! He broke a record for his age group and his race!


My aunt Shari and I at the track meet! We had so much fun! I love you Shar bear!

Elder Brad Hailstone

ELDER BRAD relaxing in his hammock! :)

I am going to be keeping an update on him on here for family! :)

These are the pictures I just got!

Elder Jeff Kohler!

My very best friend all growing up and all through out junior high and high school is serving a mission in Alaska right now. Well today I got an e-mail from Jeff telling me that he has been very sick. The past year he has always had really bad head aches and migrains but now they are getting worse. Every morning he wakes up with a really bad migrain and all through out the day he has a head ache and then again at night he has a migrain. Jeff has been going to a hospital in Alaska where a group of doctors have been checking him out. They have discovered that he has a hole in his heart and a bad infection that is trying to get to his brain. They believe there is more going on and are still checking him out. He goes back in to them this week to see if the medication they have put him on will help him but he says it hasn't helped a bit so far. They told him that if it hasn't helped they would have to admit him to a specialty hospital up there while they did tests on him. They told him that it would be for approximately 2 weeks. And in that case Jeff would be sent home off of his mission. I am praying for him like crazy! It makes me sick to think that something could be so seriously wrong with Jeff. In high school Jeff was our all star baseball player. He was a friend to everyone! Every time my car broke down weather it was the battery dying or a flat tire which happened a number of times... Jeff was always the first one there. He was a steady act of kindness! I hope that he knows how much I love him and how much I care about him. He is the best friend anyone can ask for! But despite all of this Jeff is keeping a great attitude and talks about how much he loves his mission and the Lord! He tells me that it is the best! He doesn't want to come home! He wants them to be able to take care of it there so that he can stay!

I am so proud of you Jeff! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!! Keep up the great attitude!

Me & Kylie

So me and my cousin Kylie/Best Friend decided we have 9 weeks to work our butts off to get in bathing suit shape! This winter was a long winter and all either of us did was work and ride the snow mobiles. It is now time to get back in shape. I didn't think I had lost so much strength until Steve had me do a male push... I got down and couldn't get back up haha! It was horrible! I could not believe it! I use to have the strongest arms. So I called Kylie and she came over to my house. We Walked/Jogged the trail that goes around the town houses I live in, the baseball park, golf course, and The Quarry where Wal-Mart, Lowes, and all those restaurants are. It is all almost up or down hill, not really flat. After we came back to the house and while Matt and Steve were gone to a friends house for dinner and a party, we busted a**! We did a whole ab work out, tons of leg lifts, lunges, push ups, squats and LOTS of other good leg work outs. Our work out lasted 3 hours. It was intense and way fun! Me and Ky had each other laughing the whole time. This morning we both woke up for work feeling a lot skinnier and toner haha but then we looked in the mirror... not a change! haha So today we will repeat our work out and plan to do it 5 days a week for the next 9 weeks and keep on our 1200 calorie diet! Or at least do our best! haha! Our work out kicked our butt. I feel like a freshman starting drill team again! haha! I'm going to have to go home and do some good stretching before our work out today!