Trek. No, THE Trek

We trekked! What joy! Because we are still pretty much trekking along like busy little latter-day pioneers, here's some quick pictureage (all provided by, of course, Dad) and summary of the trek. (And that is THE trek. None of this "trek" stuff without an article in front. I mean, in the front.)

Thursday morn, we started out tired!

After many hours on the bus, we arrived and ate. (Who takes a picture during the prayer?! Is that even allowed!? Amen, sister!)

That night we danced! Oh, Johnny, oh, Johnny, OH!!! (You might not think it would be organized. Afterwards, you could say, "I told you so")

Handcart retrieval the next morning was also wonderful. (Is that another praying picture, or is the sun too bright? We aren't sure)

Martin's Cove was as spectacular as ever, if not better than ever.

And the river crossing was great! About 80 feet skinnier than theirs, 80 degrees warmer than theirs, and 80% easier than theirs. Incomprehensible for us, as were most of their trials!

The Mormon Battalion proved to be one of the greatest experiences of the trek, and Bum and her family made it up the hill as all the boys stood respectfully and silently on the sidelines. Different, but good.

And in the end, we all looked pretty authentic and rough. But not because of the food- no, no, no! Mom did a GREAT stinking job on the food, and she now deserves a billion days of vacation without a second thought to the trek, providing the most wonderful of nourishment and coming in 500 dollars under budget! Dad gratefully bottom fed, but he also contributed a great deal with his stories and consistent photography. And Bum had the greatest family and the greatest time, and I was just grateful to go again, and to have all my at home family not at home with me was fabulous! Westward Ho!

EFY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY!!! EFY!!!! EFY was by far, the best week of my whole life, no kidding! I have never had so much fun and i have never partied so much, while still feeling the spirit. The classes and the testimony meeting was my most favorite part. I was grateful for the opportunity to go to EFY and meet such wonderful people! This is our high school musical picture while waiting (for TWO hours!) to get into the variety showThe Sunglasses Crew!My absolutely PERFECT company! Go, CHOSE LIBERTY!My awesome Samoan friend!My AWESOME roommate JENAYE, and our wonderful apartment roommate, Ashley!And lets not forget, my apartment roommate, Hallie Platt from Northstake!!! We were both from Colo. Springs! how awesome!

Well EFY was AMAZING and i surely will never forget all of the wonderful times! :)

Trip to Utah..well a while ago!

At the beginning of the summer, mom and I headed out to Utah. We stayed into provo for a bit and then we went downt to Monroe to baby sit. It was a great trip that had great experiences. :)We climbed up the "Y"

Ally just looked cute!

Then we had bath time. Wait.....what is that?!?!??!?! WHO did that?!??!

And we got to see the Carters.

Sunshine Corner and Midnight Aura

I slept as a baby in the Duck Room, and I only remember what it looked like because I once saw a family video of it. All of us spent at least some poriton of our childhood in the Looney Toon room, and I could probably still tell you the exact positioning and order of each of the cartoon characters on the wallpaper. Sum and I used to write on the wall of that room the tasks we needed to accomplish in order to have a clean room. The room next door is equally historic, and the neighbors eventually ended up as Sunshine Corner and Midnight Aura.

Could anything be happier? (And look how cute Ally is at 3 in the morning!)

Well, with such positive end results, one must be sure there was a magical something keeping goodness at a stable level in all different appearances, for Sunshine Corner, at least-- and there was. Perhaps you remember this little guy, perhaps you never even knew he was there. But there he was, for a good 10 years or so. Occasionally visitors would look up and inquire at the strange booger on the ceiling, but he mostly went unnoticed. I remember Grandpa and Grandma even had to stay in there once and I thought, "Oh no, if Grandma sees that, he will be a goner for sure." He survived, luckily, however, since we were moving and all of us had to be out, he too made his exit.

Don't worry, just as Duck Room, Bear Room, Looney Toon Room, Midnight Aura, and Sunshine Corner have left their mark on all of us, if you look closely, you'll see lil' 10 yr-old worm guy also left his mark on the aforementioned locations of childhood and innocence.

Goodbye, Mr. Worm, and thank you for all you consistent years of companionship!

Somebody needed to blog....

http://voicethread.com/share/482903/

Here is a thing we had to do for english which I barfed out the night before; it's nothing phenomonal, but since there is a story about you guys in there, I thought you might appreciate it! And you don't have to watch/listen to the whole thing, you guys are the fourth slide of five, and you certainly don't have to wait for all the comments to play; that was just part of the assignment, as classmates we had to comment on each other's voice threads. Anyways, enjoy!

(You might have to paste this link into a word document and then into your internet link. I don't know)

Graduation

Krista graduated on May 27, 2009 from Doherty High School. It was your standard, one each, graduation ceremony except Krista did get to sing in a group (without practice even!)As you can see in the first thumbs up picture, Krista is wearing a white dress, but she pulled a great schnike and surprised me by wearing her famous Doherty dress. Number 5 in her class academically but number ONE in her class for cool schnikes. The best part of graduation was getting to go to Golden Corral for dinner.

For those of you who don't know, Golden Corral is the proud sponsor of a 500 mile NASCAR race. Well, Dad had thought he heard that and so as he was leaning over a stack of 500 glasses to check out the beverage options he became the first entrant (and winner) of the Golden Corral "Glasscar" race. As the first stack started to fall and Dad thought, "shoot, mise well go fer broke" and he hugged all of those cups, the domino theory became a reality. The poor worker girl said she almost peed her pants and I think Krista, Saraho and Summer did, plus they forgot to breathe they were laughing so hard. It weren't the "Pissed in Cup" but you couldn't beat it fer excitement drawing the attention of everyone in the place.

First Night

After many trips of a van full of stuff and much help from Grandpa and Grandma, and Charina and Jimmy, we spent our first night in our new house! It was great. We spent most of our time trying to remember where we put things and which light switch works which light. We picked up Dad at COS after his 24 hours of travel returning from Germany and lived in the new house as a complete (all be it, miniature, version of the Roy fam. Here's a few pics of the house.

The pics were before we moved in and we have completed some "modifications" and other things already. If you want to know what they are, then I guess you'll just have to come see for yourself. Anytime!!!! Our new address is 5435 Widgeon Point, Colorado Springs, CO 80918 and our phone number is the same.