polygprom09

prom. prom. prom. big deal right? wrong. at least not me anyway.. so annie has this idea, which is let's go to prom as polygamists! i don't know where she thinks of some of these things... actually i do. anyway i decided to not join in on this one until actually someone bought me a ticket and therefore i had no choice. so i figured i might as well just do it. so we got all dressed up, probably the weirdest part was when annie used a braid of her own hair that she had when she chopped it off short and braided it into not only my hair, but all the other wives as well. and the really weird part was that it matched all our hair... sisterhood of the traveling hair type situation. anyway we were off to the prom. as we entered it was like just this lobby type thing where a bunch of people were just hangin out, and as SOON as we walked through the door, eeevery head turned to us and just silence swept them all it was really, like... i've never experienced such a thing. we started to walk up the staircase when a man told us "you don't have to hide" and we informed him that we were just shy by nature, and continued to walk up the stairs. heads turned from every direction, fingers pointing, whispering, i've never been so stared at before in my life. some people hated it, some loved it, some just did not know what to think. i tried to tell them that we were just like everyone else and wanted to enjoy our prom. as the first wife, olive, i was allowed some dancing privileges but mostly that behavior was just inappropriate. finally all the staring just got old and we went and got a birthday cake to celebrate. cause everyone likes cake.

full speed ahead

i'm really not quite sure how it even came about.. gavin, was it your idea? anyway... the idea was to hey, why not longboard down the canyon trail last night around midnight? despite many concerns, including my own but were quickly pushed aside, we decided it was probably the best idea we could think of, actually... we weren't really even thinking. so i guess that would make it the best idea that we could... not think of. but thought of, cause how else would we know? THE POINT IS WE THOUGHT A LITTLE BIT. i should probably mention that i have gone on.. like three longboard adventures and neither of them were quite extreme. i had ridden the trail on scooters before and all i remember is i had to push the whole way. the only insight we had came from gavin's sister which was, sit when you don't have to push? was that it? i don't really know... and also from dear ali who advised us to definitely not. or die. anyway we started out, i don't know where the moon was because there was no light to guide us. so the first like stretch i thought i could just ride it out, and that is what i attempted to do, passing gavin i entered a dark world of aloneness. i started picking up speed, but the whole time i thought i cannot panic if i panic then i die, and i'm too young to die, so i tried to keep it cool. then i realized that i had nooo idea what this trail was going to throw at me, downhills? i guess that was what gavin was trying to shout at me, does it get steeper? but i was alone. and thats when it became too much for me and i knew that i just had to get off, i never really played this situation out in my head and the only logical thing i could think was, get off. but how? so.... i knew that even if i wasn't on the board it was still going to continue the path of dark uncertainty so i aimed it so it would fly into the good side of trees and crap and then, i simply put my foot down. baaaad decision when i realized that the pavement was actually standing still, and i was not, and when those two met, it threw me to ground. for one second i was pretty sure i broke my foot but i think that's what everyone thinks when they fall. anyway, i shook off the fall just fine with only a cut and a scrape for battle wounds. after that, we decided it was probably the best idea to just sit it out the whole way down, and that's what we did. when we finally made it to the bottom, which was where my car was parked, my mind immediately took me to the moment of just getting out of gavins car to start the journey, keys in hand, then thinking "wait... i didn't drive i don't need these" and throwing them back into his car and shutting the door. nooot a good thinker i am sometimes. anyway... we realized the journey that lay before us, but actually i don't think we really did... between gavin's screaming and wild laughter and my zombie like state we made our way back up the trail, back to gavin's car, alive. thankfully...

third times a charm

it's true it's true it's true. topaz mountain ACTUALLY has topaz!! i woke up at 8:30 this morning which was actually quite the feat seeing as how i haven't decided to roll out of my bed until some time after noon these last couple days. the plan was to leave at 9:00 i don't know why i thought that we'd actually leave then and why i did not attach two more hours so i could sleep longer because that's how things usually work in my family but waking up early only sucks for but a moment. sometimes... i need to tell you about this awesome wolf shirt i saw. honestly i spotted it so freakin quick, i didn't even have to see the front, just the back was enough to know that it was a wolf shirt and that it would be a great wolf shirt, i just have those senses now. anyway, it was a freakin indian on a freakin horse with these freakin wolves surrounding it. i knew that indians and wolves got along, but i didn't know that a wolf would just get along and protect that horse like that. it was an amazing sight really, and it took all that i had to not rip it off the man wearing it in that gas station. as great as that was, it probably came in second- after the discovery of topaz. i ventured back out there along with my dad and sister mindy, it was great to have some company other than the lizards.. also a friend of my dads came with his little 7, almost 8, year old son who thankfully has made me an expert on "spore slicers" apparently they're the ones responsible for all the holes and such in the rocks, who knew? The higher the elevation the more populated they get he told me, he said they will attack but to just conk them on the head with your digging tools if you encountered one.  so if you ever go, keep that in mind. He also taught me the gecko climb, which proved effective in climbing up the rocks, and it even had such a lovely song to go with it that i think everyone within a ten mile radius heard. Anyway... i'm so glad i could finally find it. it's all over the place really. you look down and you just see sparkling scattered all across the landscape. there was a part of the mountain where they had blown out some spots, they stamped it with "keep out utah state property" but it didn't seem to keep anyone including us off and therefore hindering our quest of finding the precious topaz. we could not be stopped. i believe that rock hounding is a great hobby and i plan to go back and become one of the avid miners there. it's such a neat place and was such a nice and sunny day. i even see a little redness on my arms... there's just something about being in God's creations especially with people you love, it's a beautiful thing. i believe that God has put such wonderful things on this earth for us to appreciate and enjoy, and i do intend on enjoying them. Appreciate yourself, appreciate the people in your life, appreciate the things we are given, and appreciate topaz mountain. pictures are to come later...

Hi

So this is what it's like to own a blog... hm... just soakin it up. Anyway i'm anna. And yes, despite what you all think i do belong to a wolf pack. And you are all welcome to join.. After initiation of course... So here's the thing. I don't know what's going on.... All i know i just got this blog on gavin's bed. Once i decide what to talk about i'll talk about it cause right now i just don't really know so i'm alll over the place, which in my opinion is the best anyway... just let it come. like cotton candy. i don't want to take the time to capitalize these stupid letters who can tell me what i have to cap and not cap anyway... my words my rules. okay thanks bye