Apron Stringz: Long time no post

Hello again! My mom has been very busy lately and hasn't had time to do a post, so she asked me to do one! This one is just to fill you in on what we've been doing lately! So now lose yourself in these wonderful pictures :D

A visit to the zoo.

Hattie enjoying the zoo.

The next morning.

Grandpa Rich reading a story to Maddie and Nathan.

Maddie really loves her new cousin!

Maddie and Nathan horsing around in the sandbox.

"We're back!"

Me and Maddie picking out funky shoes at Wet Seal.

Don't we look gorgeous?

Hattie taking her first swim after a long day of shopping.

What a long day!

Having fun at Aunt Susie's house.

Playing in the water.

Maria before family pictures.

Dad was experimenting with the camera, aren't our faces hilarious?

Our nice family picture...

Me and mom holding a tarantula.

I took hundreds of pictures of clouds on our way home in the car, this is just one of them.

This was one of those rare times were it rains really hard in Hurricane. It flooded Kevin and Lori's almost finished basement. This is a picture of out side the basement door.

For some reason dad left his socks on while he was trying to get all that water out of the basement.

The cabinets almost got ruined but we got there just in time to save them.

I had the sense to wear galoshes, although now that I think of it I'm probably the only one in our neighborhood who has them! (I've always wanted them even though it never rains here. I just happend to get them for my birthday a few months earlier) Look how deep that water is!

Another view of me standing in the water.

Outside the basement door. Wow...

The sewing room flooded too so we had to vacuum out water from there. Sadly it again a few days later and Kevin and Lori's basement flooded again but this time we were prepared.

We have a lot of disasters... this particular one was when a water truck from some road work going on by the Gallery rolled and took out a bunch of fence and plants and messed up the sprinkler system. Apparently the person that was driving the truck had the truck ideling and was just sitting there when he had a seizure! He must have bumped something to make the truck start rolling. We're alright now :)

The damage.

The sprinkler system.

More of the damage.

This is me and my dad's trip to California. Me and Grandma at the Santa Monica Beach.

Me playing in the ocean.

Looking out at the beach.

Me looking glamorous :)

We swam at Zelpha's house everyday. Zelpha, me, and Grandma lounging in the pool.

Right after our trip we went on a ward campout. This is dad setting up our camper.

A beautiful picture of Kolob Lake.

Another one of our disasters. A house right behind the Gallery caught fire, thats all the smoke.

I ran over to the city park with our camera and stood on a picnic and took some pictures. I was so close to the fire I'm surprised they didn't tell to go away! Anyway, this is one of the awesome pictures that I took from there.

A fire fighter shooting water at the house. They used a ton of water!

What's left of the house. If you've never seen a house burn then you would never belive the feeling I had as I watched it burn! I was almost about to cry as I watched one of the fire fighters bravely running into the house to try and see if there was any more people in there. It was also very terrifing!