Fun times and sunshine! ;)

Ok yes I know I'm really bad at keeping up with my blog but whatever. So this summer has been a pretty relaxing summer. I finally found a job teaching dance at the school of dance and I am so excited about it!! Its going to be so fun!

We just got back from our trip to Newport Beach! It was our families first time going and we had so much fun! We went with some families in our ward and it was a blast. We had beach house so we went to the beach everyday. We also rented bikes and rode around on them everyday. We always liked to ride on the board walk and get some doughnuts. Yummm. We also went shopping one day and got some cute things. We also went to an Angels baseball game! WOO! That was alot of fun! Yes the angels won of course! One of the nights we went to knotts berryfarm and that was so fun. The rollercoasters there are insane!!! Briggs loved the beach and playing in the sand! He would just be covered in it by the end of the day. He also like to eat it... ugh haha We had such a fun time and already want to go back :)

So we went on our yearly lake powell trip in July and it was so fun!! It was kind of weird cause like no one could come so there wasn't very many people there at all and usually we have so so many people. This year also I was able to invite Emily to come! It was so fun! We did a lot of surfing and tubing and laying out catching some rays. It was sooooo hot there this year. Proabbly like 112 everyday and the water was like bathtub water! It was so awesome!!

GIRLS TRIP:)

Summer time :)

Ok so I am back home now. I wish i was still in Ecuador with my kids I'm not going to lie. I like being home don't get me wrong, I love being with my family and friends but i miss my kids sooooooo much! Still to this day not a day goes by that i'm not thinking about them. I miss them so insanely much! :( But anyways... now that I am home Im not really doing anything. I'm still looking for a job but not having any luck so hopefully i will find one soon. This summer so far has been very relaxing and so much fun! Pretty much all I do is babysit Briggs (which I love to do), go to the pool, hang out with Emily and Chelsea, go boating, go for runs, and just whatever else. hahah i love the summer time!!!! Its my favorite time of the year! So I'm just livin it up! :)

Happy Birthday Chels!! Yay chelsea is finally 19!! haha love you girl!

Fun days of boating :)

Emily threw me a welcome home party at her manchin of a cabin! It was so much fun! I just have the greatest best friends in the whole entire world!! Love them :)

My Ecuador BFF! Love you Marisa!! So happy you live in Provo and we can hang out.

LAGOOOOON! haha oh what a fun day at lagoon. Me and Bris took some sweet pictures while we were on roller coasters, and me, nate, and bris did the sky coaster! WOO!

Jungle Fever

Alright.. so as the time came to end our amazing time in ecuador we still had one last fun thing to do. GO TO THE JUNGLE!! WOW is all i can say! It was soo much fun! I still cant believe that i was in the amazon jungle! It was so cool. To get to the place we were staying we had to take a 3 1/2 hour canoe ride up the Napo river. We did night hikes where we say bunch of huge spiders.. ew.. and we saw cute little frogs. Then we also did some bird watching in the mornings and we saw some toucans, a prehistoric bird, and some monkeys! Then we hiked through the jungle and it was absolutely beautiful! Definitely the hottest and most humid place i have ever been in my whole entire life! Like we were all just wet from head to toe in sweat haha. Our guide was awesome! He made it so fun! He tried to teach us how to climb a tree.. even though non of us could do it. And showed us a bunch of things, like they get their stamps, for like clothing or something from a fruit they find in the jungle. He also showed us the fruit that they make chocolate from. it was insane you would never guess when you saw it that you can get chocolate out of it. We also saw some locals pan for gold. They showed us how the whole process was done. Man.. it takes hard work all day. But it was cool we got to see the gold at the end. We floated down the Napo river, which was kind of scary cause there are pirahnas, and anacondas and stuff in the water but luckily they werent where we were.. hopefully haha We also went and saw a healer who takes all the bad feelings away from you and replaces them with good feelings using leaves that he shakes around you and he sings it was so awesome. We ate grub... which are like bugs.. gross haha And then our guide taught us how to do the blow darts :) that was fun all of the girls made it into the papaya but the boys just could do it haha Anyways that is just some of the amazing things that we got to do there! Check out some pictures :)

Hello! wow its been a long while. haha I can't even start to explain how amazing this experience in Ecuador is! I wish there was a way that i could explain and show how amazing it is but you really can't know unless you are here. These kids are the most precious things in the whole wide world!! I love them with all my heart!! Every time i see them i love them more and more!! I came down here wanting to change the lives of the kids but really the kids are the ones that are changing my life :) I love them so much! Like they are my own kids!! I just want to take all of them home with me! Being here has really helped me realize how important family is to me. Having a family and feeling the love and support and care of your family is the greatest blessing!! I can't imagine how it could be not having anyone. It just breaks my heart to know that these kids here have no one. I am so happy that i got to show them that someone really does love them!

Anyways we have had plenty of adventures the past few weeks, going to the Basillica, and a church made of complete gold, if they were to take all the gold out it would be 57 kilograms of gold!