all the Stuff that's been happening!

So, I haven't updated in a while. I am sorry. Here are some things we've been up to (from oldest to newest)!!

1. We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house

2. We went hiking on Pioneer Day in the High Uinta Mountains to Wall Lake with Daniel's parents.

3. On our 3-month anniversary we went to the Secondhand Serenade Concert.

4. We floated the Provo River with Brandon and Jen Pierce. SO FUN!! Even though their tube popped and they barely made it back!

5. We went boating with Daniel's parents and Wei and Keeley. It was way fun until our boat died in the middle of Utah Lake. We had to be towed in.

6. I almost stepped on a snake at rehearsal for my play at The Castle Theater. It was 4 feet long!

7. My entire family is here from Detroit. We went to my cousin Shaun and Rebecca's wedding at the Draper Temple.

8. We went as a family to Lagoon on last Saturday.

9. On Monday we went to Park City and rode the Alpine Slide and Alpine Coaster and Zip Line all day long! More photos of this later...

Anyway, that's the general idea of what's been happening the last four weeks!

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