Hailstorm

Today it started raining really hard so we opened our door to watch it. Then it started hailing pretty hard, like in between pea size and golfball size. There's not really anything that size to compare it too. I love hail. I love to catch it and then keep it in the freezer, so we put a bowl outside. I got pretty soaked running it out there, and it didn't even catch anything. We ended up just picking the hail up of the ground after it stopped. It was pretty fun! Here are pictures of our hail storm. The black dots in the sky that make it look like my camera lens is dirty are hail.

G and G G Come to Visit

In July, Grandma and Grandpa Gardner, Teresa, and Ben came to visit! Although I had to work a lot, we had a lot of fun hanging out together. We watched movies, played board games, and visited fun places like Custers Last Stand and Devils Tower.

Ben's cute rainbow bandaid! (It matched the Mickey Mouse antenna topper on our car.)

Having way too much fun with my hat. (It is a pretty sweet hat though.)

My mom's birthday was when everyone was here, so I made her eclairs for breakfast. Yum!

Betteridges Come to Town!

My sister Ashley came to visit us in May with her husband and 3 adorable boys. We had lots of fun together. One day, Ashley, Jared and I took the boys to some local parks. Here are some pictures of playing at the park:

And of course, you need some good old popsicles to cool off!!

Randomness

During last General Conference I braided Tsutomu's hair. I promise I was paying attention to the speakers, it just helps me concentrate if I can do something with my hands. It truned out pretty cool, except that I ran out of rubberbands halfway through.

...and the after effects:

Rock Band!!!

Rock band is a super fun game that Tommy, Cody, and I played on many a Sunday afternoon at school. This is us playing:

My Dorm

On of the funnest parts of going to college is decorating the dorm room. I didn't have a roommate for most of the year so I pretty much did whatever I wanted. I think it was pretty cute!

Third Eye Blind

In November, Third Eye Blind Came to our school! I was sooooo excited because I LOVE 90s music, and expecially Third Eye Blind. The new music they played was not amazing but there older songs were awesome. Jumper was the best. I haven't been to too many concerts, but this one was the best by far, it was sooo much fun! Stephan Jenkins has a really great stage presence and got everybosy pumped up. Here are some pictures of the band and Stephan.

Random Things I Did in October

Cut Tommy's hair



Learned the Thriller!



Carved a cool pumpkin

Dressed up for Halloween

Hung out with Tsutomu!

Strawberries

Strawberries have always been my favorite fruit, even though I'm a little allergic....only slightly though! When I was really little we used to have a strawberry patch in our back yard but after our basement flooded when I was like 5, my dad dug it up to put in a sump pump :( A few years ago, I convinced my parents to plant a new strawberry patch in our garden. Strawberry plants are perenial, so they come back every year...and spread. Since we planted it, they have taken over the whole garden! Every May and June we get thousands of little, red, delicious berries. Yum! He are some pictures from this year.

Here, the squirl who stole our strawberries and then sat on the fence and ate them while we watched him and some of my beeeeeeauuuuutiful strawberries!