heres to trying new things.

i usually consider myself pretty boring.

i try new foods, i hang out my friends blah blah blah

but i don't usually learn new things. find new hobbies. 

but tonight i went to a beginning kayaking class. 

and it was soooo fun. 

and such a challenge! i worked on my rolls from being underwater, and how to get my paddle to help me to roll etc etc.

and it was tonight that i realized that there are so many things that i want to learn how to do. 

and i think i limit myself for no good reason! learning how to do new things is the BEST.

and just with this kayaking--i know i will neverrr be a professional. but i loved it. 

and i am for sure going to more classes!

fun fun night. 

happy day.

today is a GOOD day.

it's my sweet mother's birthday!

(ignore that we are squints)

and i also made this for her. 

dark chocolate raspberry truffle. 

it's also a good day because of this

AND because there are ONLY 4 more weeks til the end of the semester!

(positivethinking,positivethinking,positivethinking)

have a wonderful week everyone!

hairs.

i basically do the same things to my hair every day. 
so i decided to change it up today.
after all, my hair is FINALLY getting longgggg. 

went for the milkmaid braid look but kind of changed it into fishtail braids

i actually really liked it tooo

 this is the start to new hairstyles!

more cutes from moab..

honestly, all we did was find rocks to read on.

princesses.

...

explore moab. spring break2012.

now that i am officially back into school after having a 10 day spring break, i figured i should blog about it!

before life picks up yet again :)

just like last year, I went to moab with my favorite ladies.

this trip was the funnest thing.

LOTS of hiking. we went hiking just about every single day. some days we just went exploring on unmarked trails up moab canyon. i highly reccommend this!

on of my favorite parts of the whole trip (and i think everybody's) was REPELLING. 

some of you may know that i am so afraid of heights--they have brought me to tears several times. 

but lately i just have really wanted to get out of it and i am just trying to convice myself i am not afraid 

and so far it's worked! cliff jumping and now repelling. 

we first had to basically scale an entire mountain, which was COMPLETELY INSANE.

check out the view 

these were our awesome guides mike and david.

also, I LOVE THESE GIRLS MORE THAN ANYTHING. 

best friends for 13 years. 

 

me coming down. 

i was SO scared. especially because at one part you have to take your feet off the mountain

which technically sounds easier--it wasn't for me though. 

i loved having the security of the rock underneath my feet. 

but i did it-- and completely fell in love

next time i am in moab i want i to repel off corona arch!

my aunt is friends with several people in moab who own awesome equipment/ know great places to go and do fun things.

we were able to go unimogging!

and made some baby boyfriends too.

and finally

the trip would have not been the same without our daily (and sometimes multiple times a day) trips down this road!

POTASH road.

it's where all the BABEIN climbers are.

we  should be really embarrassed

but all those shirtless boys with cutoff jeans, scruff, curly locks,  and CLIMBING 

was the best kind of eye candy. 

mandatory. 

and i leave you at that.

(because i don't have the rest of the pictures. wahh) 

we also enjoyed finding random rocks to read on. 

went ATV-ing. 

and spent some grand time with 13 dogs. 

as they supposedly say...

"dogs are like chips. you can't just have one!"

I LOVE RED ROCK. 

I LOVE MOAB. 

it's definitely one of my favorite places ever. 

this summer moab trip:

corona arch

RAFTING!

more arches. 

BIKING!!

it's coming back!

one of my favorite shows growing up was Punk'd.
PLEASE tell me somebody else loved this show!!
ASHTON just punking all celebrities.
my favorites being adam brody, hilary duff and justin timberlake (the best!)


so, you can't even imagine how excited i am for it to come back!
with celebs like the biebs, taylor swift, liam, demi and khloe! it's seriously all my favorites.
just watch this and tell me you are so freaking excited!

into baking.

on tuesday i started my advanced baking and pastry class! 

i can't say that i was too thrilled 

(i actually felt sick to my stomach alll day-baking is not my favorite.)

and i STILL don't think i am going to love the next second weeks. 

a lot of hard work is going to go into this class. 

and my final for the class is making a special occasion cake

this got me really excited because get to decide exactly what i want to do--so obviously i turn to pinterest thinking i would just copy one off there. 

then i surprised myself and took a lot of different ideas and thought of something on my own! 

here are a few things that i am thinking of:

and i guess you will see what it comes out to be in about 6 weeks! wish me luck!