Connor Ray

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONNOR RAY!!!!

Connor has always been such a cute little brother. Garrett left him when he was 13, leaving Connor home with 2 older sisters... maybe that's why he's more affectionate? who knows, but I LOVE HIM!! Connor and me have this joke that we are twins, because HE looks like ME. haha :)

Summer 2007haha look at him!! Such a cutie patootie!!Summer 2008Summer 2009 Summer 2010
He's taller than me now! Supposedly he's taller than my dad, we'll have to see in September! Connie has always been such a trooper putting up with us picking on him and being the little squirt. :) Connie has also set such an example for me of how to be happy and an obedient person. I know if I had moved my junior year of high school to a place where I was the minority in school, and no one at home, I probably would have ran away. :) I don't know how you did it Connie, but you're SO AWESOME!!!
Things I love about Connor

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  He has the most squinty eyes in the family


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  His 3 moles on his chest that line up like O'Rions Belt


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  Also the mole under his right eye, just like mine


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  He looks like me


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  He always makes me laugh/ smile


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  He'll comfort me whenever I'm sad


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  He's never had braces (Lucky)


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  He can do all the math for board games super fast


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  He always hugs me

Happy 18th Birthday Connor!!

Independence Weekend

For the three day weekend we left for Pullman, Washington to see Garrett, Valerie, and Tori!! This weekend was SO MUCH FUN!! I wish we all lived closer... someday maybe. I don't even have HALF of the pictures/movies, so this is just a snippet of what went on. It was a decent drive with beautiful rolling hills. When we got there we played Nintendo Kinect, which was awesome!! We got ridiculous photos and videos. We played on Garrett's Mac and made some more awesome videos! Watched some old high school videos Garrett has made, watched some OC, and talked and laughed all night! The next day we woke up and got ready to go to Wawawai Park. There we had some sausage dogs, played frisbee, killed multiple spiders (BAM! BAM! BAM!), played more frisbee, took pictures, and finally cliff jumping! While we were there I was able to play with Tori's hair on various occassions. I LOVE her hair, it's so pretty and silky all the time!! Lucky duck. Tori jumping off the 25-30 ft. cliff. (That was our guess.)
Brad's jump My jump, I was trying a karate kick thing
Garrett Valerie!! Everybody
That night we had some Delicious Chinese food!! Ah it was SO GOOD!! Sunday we had church, some scrumptious dinner, divine peanut butter oatmeal cookies, and walked around WSU campus. Their campus was beautiful, we also got to run/jump on their football field! So fun to have a real sports team! (Another highlight of the weekend: WEARING SHORTS!! BOOM BABY!!!) Monday we soaked up some more sun at Hamilton Low water park in Moscow Idaho. They had Fumbrellas, 2 water slides, and a diving board.

Tori karate chopping a fly. (Awesome fumbrella! haha)
This is called a Frog Dive, I learned it from a drunk man in Korea... It's legit, from this you dive into the water.
Brad and Garrett enjoyed throwing themselves off of the diving board. :)
haha it was fun to watch.
After the pool and getting clean, we went to one of my favorite Burrito spots in WA; Taco Del Mar!!! :) We arrived at Sunnyside park well in advance to claim our spot on the grass. We occupied our time by playing the card game Ligretto, people watching, talking, and checking the time constantly.
We love you guys and miss you all SO MUCH!!!
Finally at 10 o'clock we enjoyed the firework show!! They launched off a top of the hill in front of us, it seemed like they were right above our heads though and that the debris was going to fall on us. It was an awesome show!!
After the show we went back to eat Cookies and launch our own little fireworks. We had some bottle rockets from last year we set off. A lot of them were duds, causing us to get kind of comfortable with them. I tried holding one as it went off, but sparks started flying and it fell right in front of me, something sparkly was in my hair, I was screaming and it was loud. Luckily nothing happened, and I haven't found any burned hair yet! Brad and Garrett then implanted some fireworks into a toy pony head that we found by the dumpster. That poor little pony... destroyed! Thank you so much Garrett and Valerie for letting us stay at your place and taking care of us!! We're so glad you could make it too Tori, and the rest of the family- we missed you! We could have spent a whole nother week there!! haha, it was just so much fun and there is so much more we could do! :)

Goody Gum Drops

Good news, we've only had 3 spiders in our apartment this Spring!!! :) This one happened to be a Hobo spider... blah, the cousin of the brown recluse.

A teacher from campus who travels to Asia a lot gave me this delicious recipe for Shu Mai!! It was sooooooooooooo good!
and I love the Coco Bean!! Two flavors I've wanted to try: Orea and Ultimate Brownie. Both were amazing!! :)
Other good news, we are Temple Workers!!!
We work Saturday Mid-shift; which is from 10-4... Kind of long, but we've loved our time there and wouldn't want to spend our Saturday any other way.
I Love this Temple!! I love wearing one of my favorite dresses all day in there too, I feel like a princess. haha. It's SO pretty inside!! and outside!! Obviously! :)

Hangman

Just for my own personal memories I'm sharing this story. It's so ridiculous and so us!! I LOVE it!! haha... So we wanted to play games on skype against each other one night. After playing some battleship, and aquablast, we decided to do some hangman! So we each type our words in and hit start. The first letters to guess are obviously vowels... A, E, and O imparticular. We both select those trying to go fast to get the word first. I look up to see what we've both guessed so far. On my word Brad had guessed _ E E _ E E. On Brad's word I guessed:
_ E E _ E E _O O _ O O. We both looked at each other and started busting up laughing... Haha, know the missing letter? 5 minutes later, we were still laughing... I still chuckle thinking how we both picked the same word to start off with... haha, our first words... Love it! :)

Mi Papi!!!

My papi is the best!! He is SO SO SO SO SO SO Wonderful!! He has set such a great example for me in how to be a great person. He has always been adventurous!
He's a great golfer!! We're trying to get better... hahaAlways does fun things with usBad to the bone!! hahaHe LOVES Red Robin, thank goodness, cause we all love it too! He'll always jump into my crazy photo taking!
He reads the Newspaper everyday! Every Saturday morning I remember him either having the Newspaper in hand or seeing it sitting on the floor already read. Sometimes my goal for saturday would be to be awake by the time dad was going to go get the paper so I could walk up the street with him.

He loves mommy, and they are so funny together!

He has phenominal blue eyes!! and passed that on to all of the kids! :)

He LOVES to travel and has taken us to so many amazing places!! Thanks for always thinking of us and including us on the big trips! :) Seriously the best DAD EVER!

"Dad's always right!"

I love you papi and hope you have a great fathers day! I can't wait till I get to see you again!

Family Pictures

My friend let us borrow her tripod to practice some motion pictures. I figured why not get some family photos too! We've been married over a year and need some replacements for all the wedding pictures. So they worked like this: Brad would go pose while I played with angles/lighting. Then I'd set the timer and it would snap 4 pictures. (Just to get a full smile in)Then I played with some of our photos in photoshop!! I was so happy with how it worked out!!

This one is my first attempt at vintage. This one was sepia, the settings done by photoshop.Natural, just cropped and hid some dandelions.
Black and white w/ a high contrast. I thought it was cool.

There's just a few!! I love pictures so of course we have TONS of them!! Bradley was such a trooper!! :) There was also a LOT of goofing off!!

SUN SPOT!!! I love having sun spots in pictures, I have no idea how to get them, but LOVE it when they show up!Brad's reaction to the picture below... "We're here!!" haha
Brad surfing the toy.

He didn't think I could do it... so wrong!