Camping and other fun times...

A few weeks ago we had a wind storm(courtesy of Hurricane Ike)... our neighbors trampoline blew across our yard. We're lucky it didn't hit our house... Our power went out that night for about six hours. Some of our friends didn't have power for a few days. The power outage was quite exciting... Two of my friends and I decided to take a girl's night out and go bowling... Julia didn't want to drive, so she had me drive her SUV. Okay, so driving my little car is a little bit different than driving her big car. And she has touchy brakes. So, anywho... even though we had power there were still parts of the city that didn't. Namely, the bowling alley and surrounding area. Naturally, the traffic lights were out. I didn't notice the first one that was out and almost got us killed. Okay so not really almost killed, but it made for a little bit of excitement. Julia, Casey and I had our hearts racing, but we survived it and were able to sort of enjoy some really hot wings at Applebee's.

The day before the exciting un-bowling trip we went camping with the Hovermales. D.J. being the scoutmaster that he is took us on a nice long hike that night. It really was a nice hike, but we ended up setting up camp in the dark. We were "primitive camping" so of course we didn't have any bathrooms. When it was time for bed (about 11 or so) Casey and I decided that rather than use some unsuspecting bush we'd go use the bathrooms at the family campground. We were given directions and set off on our journey that was only supposed to be like 5 min. We found ourselves out in the pitch black "hollar" all by ourselves without cell service. Wahoo. So even though I'd like to say I'm grown up now... really I"m not. Our girly nerves and over active imaginations really did begin to get the best of us. Thankfully we ALWAYS have an atlas (okay two or three) in our car and were able to find our way out to the highway, lights, and a gas station. When we asked the attendant how to get back to the campground she looked at us like we were crazy and asked if we were really going out there at that time (it was probably around midnight)of night by ourselves. I think she thought we were a couple of crazy reckless teen-age girls looking for trouble. The scary part was this weird guy who asked us where we were going. We hi-tailed it out of there as fast as we could hoping the guy wouldn't come after us. Needless to say he didn't and we lived to enjoy a super yummy breakfast and an exciting non-bowling trip.

And after all that excitement...

General Conference this weekend was wonderful. As I listened to the speakers this weekend and last week at the Relief Society meeting I felt the Holy Ghost testify of the love that my Savior has for all of His children. I have a deepened resolve to strengthen my testimony and faith in Jesus Christ and to share it with others.

Oh p.s. Ethan is FINALLY walking.... sorry the video is sideways...oops