Quotes from Christmas Weekend

"She's a dude. I'm a dude. We're all dudes."

"I only know about [the medical situation] in England because of my Star Trek podcast."

"Person 1: Dave sang me a song while he gave Owen a bath today.

Person 2: And that is really big... cause he never sings in public.

Person 3: Well...it was in the bathroom..."

"We have texted a lot the past two days. I hope that doesn't mean we're lesbians."

Anyways... here is a recap of Christmas break:

Tyler came home from Iowa and we have watched our share of movies. I went to Get Air and spent lots of time with some good friends. It was 57 degrees for two days in a row and I rode my bike and sat on the porch by myself after curfew (shhh.....) and I played basketball. I have played my orange ukulele and bunch and have my new iPod on myself all the time. Played cards at least every day. That boy that I really like.... he brought me flowers on Christmas Eve. Nice week.

pearl face!

What a christmas season.

Today I got "plastic surgery" and am now on lortab. I also got stitches for the first time today (real ones). Lots of firsts. I watched 14+ episodes of Psych and just feel happy about life.

I don't think I have done anything majorly weird... yet. Hopefully it stays that way.

So here are 10 things I'm happy about right now:

1. THREE DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS!

2. I have the biggest crush on the best guy in the world

3. Went to see the lights on temple square last night

4. Justin came back from California for the break and we get to hangout!

5. I decided to practice hygeine and I showered.

6. Lortab makes you feel great.

7. Christmas is in three days!

8. In three days it's Christmas!

9. Days it's Christmas in three!

10. I had THE best conversation with my bestie Scott today.

Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving everbeedy!

This is a great holiday. To get in the spirit of giving thanks as we head into the Christmas season. I've been blessed with so much and I really am thankful. I have the most wonderful family.

It is so true when I say they are my best friends and I tell them everything. I have 4 sets of awesome parents that I love. I'm so thankful for all my friends that are so sweet to me all the time. I'm lucky. I'm so lucky I inherited Erin's friends too..... what would I do without Lexi and Teresea? I am so grateful for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that is what leads my life. I'm so grateful for music!!! It's my soul.

I have much much much more to be thankful for, but maybe you'd rather be spending the day with your family than reading my gratitude list. Which reminds me, thanks to everyone who ever reads my blog. It honestly means a lot to me. This was meant to be just a photography blog, but it has morphed into stories/music/my life/some photos blog.

ANYWAYS.

I love this holiday. I'm thankful.

Have a wonderful day and weekend =]

happy valentimes!

What time is it? This is how I felt all week.

Valentimes really IS serious times!

Hope you have a very grood Valentimes Day.

With love, from the one with a crush on every boy.

Costumes '10

Ava was the lion from the Wizard of Oz!
I was a garden gnome.

And Jack was Mario :)

Happy Halloween!

Halloween weekend was a blast. I had lots of fun with parties. And partying. All the time. I use Halloween as an excuse to wear moustaches to the store. And give them to Zorros. And eat candy all the time.

So here are some pictures of our Family Halloween Party. Last weekend:

I made these spiders! It took forever.
But aren't they cute?

I don't know if anyone actually ate these fingers...

Kristin was saavy and made this spida-web cake thing! how awesome.

I was a garden gnome that day.

Yet again, I have facial hair. You would think I liked it or something.

GFACT 2010

Grant Family Annual Camping Trip. 2010.

I really look forward to this grand event every year. We normally work on meals and packing for weeks before, but we ended up packing everything the day before. Crazy. Then we had some really frustrating car troubles. Even more crazy. So when we finally got to camp, I was so happy to be there.

The cold air. It felt so good after being in 100 degree weather. And our campsite was right by the lake, making it perfect for fishing and canoeing all the time!

view from our campsite.

we were happy campers.

Matthew. He ruined Erin's dinner. But the fire was great.

tent time. we laughed too hard.

Ava liked posing. Ha. Can you see Aspen's face between Ava's legs?

Awesome.

My very favorite part. The fog over the lake.

It rained about 82.7% of the time, and this fog was so mysterious and majestic!

Erin was an expert fisher woman. After about an hour.

And a better fishing pole. But she really caught 3 fish! Then I continued to kill, de-hook, and tie them up. I can kill fish, but still squeal when I have to split a worm in two.

Provo River Falls.

Panoram of this beautiful look out of Jordanelle.

Even though we had immense trouble getting to and from camp (our car eventually quit and it had to be towed. But I got to ride in the police woman's car to Carl's Jr. It was great) and even though it rained a bit too much, this is the highlight of my summer. I love spending all that time with my family in the prettiest part of Utah. I am probably going to be one of those girls who stays in Utah the rest of her life. But how could I leave? I am way too attached to the mountains. But I have a brave family. Cameron and Kirsten came up with their two month old, Sam, and even stayed for two nights. They are stellar.

But really my whole family is. I love them too much.

Happy Independence!
I went to a lot of the festivities this weekend, and they
were a blast. I got "hired" to take photographs for the
Centerville Parade, so I included a few of those.

This is such a fun holiday.... concerts in the park, bar-b-ques,
fireworks [if your friends invite you... IJ... (inside joke)...],
lots of snow cones, and even more fireworks.
We are so blessed to live in this country. Much thanks to it's
establishers.
Love and Fireworks,
Maddie