Happy Birthday T-Man!

Happy Birthday Tanner!! My little brother is 15 years old today! crazy business!
Here are some reasons why I love Tanner man.


He is such a good helper and a very hard worker. He's always willing to help out where it's needed and often times does it without being asked.


He appreciates me goofy side and will suffer through photo shoots with me even if he really doesn't want to do "Just one more"


He dances! not just any kind of dancing either, he ballroom dances. Not to mention he is amazing at it too. I always get jealous when I go to his performances because he does the one thing that I have always wanted to learn how to do. Oh and did I mention that he made Timpview's varsity ballroom team as a freshman? yeah.


Lastly Tanner can always make me laugh and cheer me up. He's always been nicknamed the happy child in our family because for the most part he is happy all the time!

Happy Birthday Bro! I hope you have a great day! I love you : )

fender bender : (

i rear ended a car Tuesday night. My first accident ever! okay it wasn't bad but still scariest thing of my life. Unfortunately I can't even blame it on things like my cell phone, distractions of other people in the car because I was all by my lonesome. talk about a major blonde moment. luckily her car is fine minus some of my paint scuffed on it and a scratch from my license plate cover, my car got the brunt of it with some right headlight damage that's currently being fixed as I type. hence why I'm blogging now, no car=free time on hands.

i LOVE days off

I found a job up here but I'm only a every other weekend and on call sorta person so I have many days off, which I have to admit I love! To go from being a full-time slave to my job and working my butt off every single day I have to admit it's been so nice to relax and have days where I can do whatever I want. With that said here are some of the fun things I've been up to lately on my lovely days off...

When it first started to get really nice outside I figured it was a great day for Rock Canyon Park. Candice had never been there in the summer so we were both excited to get out and enjoy the sun.






Stewart Falls was an unknown mystery to me about that I only knew of because of what others had told me about it. That was until last week. Brookie, Candice and I donned our hiking clothes and made the trek up sundance canyon and picniced on the way up. The falls were gorgeous!! They were also freezing cold! but we played in them and danced around in them long enough to get soaking wet for the hike down.






My friend Mindy moved back home to Logan for the summer and I MISS HER! Candice is doing a girls retreat in Logan for a week this summer and had to go up for training one saturday so I rode with and spent the day with Mindy. I had only been to Logan once before and all I really saw was the temple so it was fun for her to be my tour guide and see where she grew up and places that made her who she is today. The Logan zoo was particulary my favorite attraction. We had fun tantalizing and teasing the animals getting lots of dirty looks from little kids and their parents : ) it was great.





the rest of our adventures for the day took place playing on her ranch. we got the 4-wheeler stuck and ran out of gas, chased cows, went and got a load of hay with her daddy, and got cokes at the local mechanic. Reminded me so much of when I was younger in Helper. I loved it and had a complete blast!







Once Candice was done with training we all cowgirled up(I was the only brave one to wear my cowgirl hat) and headed over the the Derby. once again, Soo much fun! maybe it's the small town girl part of me but I love white trash things and it was so much fun to get into the derby like it was a Jazz game. After the derby was over we drove to Smithfield where we watched fireworks and then finished the night playing catch phrase by fire light in Derek's backyard. Then Candice and I made the drive back to Provo, which was later decided it wasn't our smartest move but nonetheless we made it home safe.







Thanks for the amazing Saturday Mindaaaay! Love you!!

ordinary-extraordinary

I've heard the saying many times before that the gospel turns ordinary men into extraordinary men. Such is the case with my dad.

18 years ago, clear back in 1991, my dad was put in as bishop of Helper ward. I don't remember much of those 6 years, except for always having to behave in church because dad had a clear view of everything I did, but I do know that he fulfilled his calling faithfully and served people and the Lord constantly.

Ten days ago on May 3, 2009 my dad was put in as bishop AGAIN, only this time it was of a different ward. A couple days before this happened my dad casually asked me one afternoon if I could keep a secret. He had a smirk on his face that made me think something was up but he wouldn't tell me straight up just kept teasing me asking if I could keep a secret. So me being the curious person I am, and knowing the history of how depressing and bad news come from our family meetings I figured I'd better call one to find out what was going on. So I called everyone into the front room and told my dad to take over the floor : )

When the news came out I breathed a sigh of relief cause for the first time in what feels like a long time a family meeting hadn't produced bad news, I'm not sure if my dad agreed with me fully or not haha. I love you Dad, you're going to do a great job!

My parents 18 years ago, funny thing is that the boys weren't even born yet, my mom is pregnant with Taylor here. But this time around Ashlee's the pregnant one and my parents are preparing to be grandparents. crazy!


Here's a real special picture of us girls and the Garlick cousins 18 years ago : )

In comparison, here we are today...

shoutout to me mamma

I had all intentions of doing this yesterday but since I'm a major procrastinator the post is going up a day late but, Happy Mother's Day to the greatest mom in the whole entire world!!!

My mom is such an amazing example to me in everything she does, she(along with my dad as well) is the most selfless person I've ever met. She is constantly sacrificing and does everything for her kids majority of the time not getting the thanks she deserves.

Not only is my mom selfless but she is so Christ-like! She is always there to remind me to look for the lessons to learn in trials, to not judge, and to love all people no matter what!

She is a great cook and loves to feed and entertain people(or at least that's what I tell myself, when I'm eating her food all the time is that she enjoys it haha).

She is so faithful to her church calling as a stake young women's president and even though she can get stressed out and at times probably hates hearing the two words: girls camp, she carries on meeting after meeting without any complaints.

She is always my biggest cheerleader and fan, constantly pushing me to fulfill my dreams and to do my very best at getting there.

All and all she's an amazing lady and I love her so much! Thanks for all you've done for me mom and continue to do for me : )

settling in

My condo is finally all unpacked and settled in! It actually looks like someone lives here now instead of boxes and piles of stuff everywhere. My friend Candice, that moved up to Provo with me for the summer, and I are sharing a room to save more money and at first we didn't think there was any way all of our stuff was going to fit, but surprisingly enough it did and it's a cozy tight squeeze but it works just fine. Some pictures of the finally products...
The kitchen part one...

Kitchen part two...

Bad shot of the living room one of the couches it out of shot and the coffee table is missing as well, oh and don't mind the mattress-our roommate had a sleepover : )

The bedroom

employment

I have been wanting a razor scooter for a while now, I know I sound like I'm 12 but really they are fun stuff. Anyways, my roommate Candice and I made a deal that we would buy one when we both got jobs up North, because we both moved up here unemployed BUT we're both officially employed now so I'm going to start looking for a scooter to purchase! I'm excited to get one and take it down the trails of Provo canyon as well as the sidewalks around town. I might even get ambitious one day and ride it over to my parents house (it's less than 5 minutes away haha). Here's one I'm interested in, probably because it's red : )

Feliz Cinco De Mayo

I am not a Mexican, that's a given, but I do love to find any reason I can to celebrate! so that's why this year I wanted to do something fun for Cinco De Mayo. So that's exactly what I did.
I started the day off with some lunch at Cafe Rio with Jessie. Funny thing is that last time we were both together on cinco de mayo was 3 years ago! That day we went to cafe rio as well and then proceeded with a self timer photo shoot up at Rock Canyon Park. Here's my favorite shot from that day:

Not only do we look different now but so much has changed since then, for instance I've got 3 years of college behind me and am now in a nursing program to do what I've always wanted to do, and Jess is Married and will be a mommy come September. weird.

After some lunch I finally went grocery shopping and stocked my apartment with some food, and did some other petty things like hang out with the old ladies of my family's ward learning about food storage and thinking to myself "man I'm so glad I'm not married right now, get me back to my single friends".
Later that night Candice and I invited some people over, our good friends Brook and Jacqui for some chips and salsa as well as a pinata(not quite sure if that's how it's spelled). It was so much fun! we hung the pinata off the balcony of our condo complex and then borrowed a bat from my parents to do some damage. We weren't bad shots and with all the noise we were making so late at night it ended up catching the attention of some of our neighbors and their friends who came out and joined in with us, and we ended up meeting some way cool people. oh I almost forgot, my brother Taylor bought us some great sombreros to wear for the occasion as well.









Long live holidays and celebrations!

Freebies

I love free stuff. Isn't it great!
I got a free haircut from my friend Lexi Allred. She is done with hair school but the salon she works at has a class with the owner every Thursday from 9-11AM, in the which they need models to work on. Yesterday, I got to be her guinea pig and get a haircut for free : ) She did an amazing job chopping off all my dead ends and it saved me $30 bucks. If anyone needs a haircut, or color let me know and I can give you her number, she's awesome.
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