Phone Pics

I was looking at all of the pictures on my phone the other day and realized that I have a lot of pictures that have fun memories tied to them. Some of them are old and from high school and others are brand new. This is mostly for me, I like remembering the stuff behind the picture.

I took this picture maybe an hour or two after Daisy was born. She looked so tiny in Aaron's arms that I had to take a picture.

This was on the ride home from picking up Finch for the first time. He was my 20th birthday present. He snuggled up there because he was afraid of the car. He was so small and cute. Even now that is his favorite place to be when I hold him. Just a side story... every night after I put Daisy down for bed, Finch will come, find me and wants me to hold him. Who says pets don't know what's going on?

I took this picture this February when I went up to Pinetop to visit my mom and dad. I was stopped for road construction and while I was waiting they did some blasting. This little picture doesn't do it justice, but it was very impressive and made the delay worth it.

Daisy looks so much like her dad. So I decided to make a comparison. This is Daisy at about a month old and the other picture is of Aaron taken at the hospital when he was born. This picture is blurry, but you can still tell how much they look alike.

This is a funny picture... just chillin.

You can't see my face, but this was taken at Green's Peak when I was 17 on homecoming... wow. Anyway I love it up there. It is so beautiful and holds a lot of great memories.

Besides being a beautiful picture of my sister Heidi... the night I took this picture was the night I met Aaron for the first time. He had only been home from his mission for about a week, when he was wrangled into coming over to Heidi and Jer's to play games and meet me! I will never forget how nervous he looked haha : ) Oh and Heidi you can find a nasty picture of me and post it so we're even.

I am a little embarrassed to post this picture... it may make me seem like I was a bit off as a kid, I don't care though it makes me laugh. Anyway I think I drew this picture in the fourth grade. If you look closely you can see a girl hanging over jagged rocks about to fall. And next to that girl are two names, one is scribbled out. The name scribbled out is Hannah and the name clearly is Ashley. These two girls were my best friends growing up and still are very important people to me. But I must have been mad at them one day in the fourth grade. Life was so dramatic for a fourth grader haha. Sorry guys if you ever read this blog, I hope you find it funny too.

I don't like this picture, but it is one of the only ones I have that was taken while Aaron and I were first dating. We were at the Brooks family Christmas party, 2008.

Through out high school, I had many pictures like this of me and Ashley. We had a lot of classes together and got bored alot. So we took pictures. This was our senior year in English. I was all tan from track, I think that was the last time I was tan.

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This isn't a very good picture because it doesn't show the whole story. On day before Valentine's Day 2009 I came home from a date with Aaron to find this in my room, an explosion of pink and red. To understand why my room was decorated I need to go back a little bit. Aaron and I weren't technically dating... but we really were. He was being very sweet and letting me take my time to warm up to the idea of marriage, not that I didn't want to marry him, but I was only 19 and a scaredy cat. Anyway that night he took me out to dinner then we saw Confessions of a Shopalcoholic (he likes all movies, one reason I married him). The whole night he kept checking his phone, more than usual, which I thought was weird. The night ended and went home. When I opened my door this is what I saw... balloons, hearts, and streamers EVERYWHERE. His little sister Heather and a friend had spent their entire night decorating my room for Aaron for me. It was the sweetest cheesiest thing ever and I loved it. Needless to say the next day I told Aaron for the first real time that I loved him and I still do.

This is the picture I sent out when I got engaged. This is a fun picture to send because you don't have to write anything with it, everyone just knows what it means.

This is a collage of my senior year volleyball team. It was a good team and a fun year.

And this picture is the miracle picture. Everyday after track my senior year I would ice my legs in the whirlpool. It would get really boring just sitting there in that freezing water so I would play with my phone. One day after icing I put my phone in my hoody front pocket and leaned over to undo the water plug. I hoped out of the whirl pool and saw my phone floating to the bottom. I screamed and grabbed it out of the water. It still worked and had somehow taken a picture from the bottom of the pool up at my arm pulling it out. It makes me laugh because it was like a call for help from my phone. Anyway I blow dried it and that phone still works.