Camping

An update and some pics:

Seby's birthday was this month (on the 9th) and this boy LOVES to fish. I mean really LOVES to fish! So for his birthday we decided to go camping in Northern Arizona, at a place called Ashurst Lake outside of Flagstaff. We went the weekend of the 17th (even though his birthday was earlier this month, that's when we could fit the trip in) It was a lot of fun. A couple of our friends, Chris and Brandon (who also LOVE to fish), came with us. We just hung out by the lake all weekend... An escape from the heat! The weather was super nice. It's so much farther north and such higher elevation than Phoenix, it was nice and cool with a light breeze all weekend. It was actually on the verge of stormy. It was overcast pretty much all weekend, and drizzled a little here and there. It was nice. We had a ton of fun ... and caught a ton of fish! Seven trout to be exact, two of which were caught by me :) The guys were kind of making fun of me though because I don't like to bait my hook, or touch the fish, and definitely would not want to gut the fish (ew!) I really just like the casting out and reeling in part, which I am good enough at to catch two fish! Haha. I get bored of fishing way faster than the guys do though. So I fished a little the first day, then spent the rest of the weekend reading and enjoying the scenery :)

Here are some pictures from the trip (fyi, they're totally in the wrong order but I'm too lazy to fix it)

That's me with the first fish I caught. (It's hard to tell, but I'm holding it pretty far away from me!)

Husband, fishin'

Me with my second fish. Brandon was kind enough to hold it for a photo opp because I didn't want to touch it.

See???? :)

Setting up camp

Brandon

By the lake (see those storm clouds!)

A picture of the lake.

Chris, just chillin'

Smile! :)

Brandon with a fish.

Seby getting ready to fish (and very excited about it)

Ok, a note about the hat. lol. I know it looks ridiculous, but us super pasty white girls gotta protect ourselves from the sun! It's ok, you can make fun of me for it. Being made fun of is certainly better than getting skin cancer!

Setting up the tent (I usually do that, but I somehow talked husband into doing it this time! Yay)

A picture of me taking a picture of Chris taking a picture of me. Haha. (Yes, that was a very childish moment)

Almost to the lake! :) Look at that big smile on his face. This boy LOVES to fish!

And that was our mini vacation! (kind of backwards, but whatever, you get it) I need to put some pictures up here sometime of me looking normal. Like not camping or vacationing on the beach, 'cause that's pretty much all I've posted here so far! I promise, I'm not always doing some crazy outdoor thing! I do look normal and somewhat pretty sometimes :)

Summer... Ick

Ok, quick little note here. I know it's so cliche to talk about the weather in the summer when you live in Arizona because that's all anyone talks about in the summer in Arizona, but seriously, it is HOT. It's seriously impossible to ignore. So in the spirit of being cliche, I must say it is 10:00 at night, my hubby just went to do a late night trash run (what a good husband). He left the door open for about like half a second and I noticed how miserably HOT it is! 99 degrees right now, at 10pm. High of 108 earlier today. Ick! Who builds a city in the middle of the desert anyway? Seriously people.



Guess that's sunny Arizona for ya. At least it's pretty!... I still cant imagine that should have been enough to make people build a city here though! And all of us that live in Arizona say that EVERY SINGLE YEAR... I won't be so cliche to go on and say "I hate it here... even though I'm totally here by choice and if I really hated it that much I could have left years ago, but instead I decided to stay and complain about it every day" because that's the other thing people say here all the time (well, the "I hate it here" at least... that last bit was slight mockery on my part)... ok, whatever, back to the pretty part. We'll try to end on a good note here :) It's HOT... but pretty!

No title... I'm bad at titles

And I'm bad at blogging...

I'm tired, so this might not make tons of sense because I don't think I'll give the whole backstory of how I came to this thought... but whatever. I'm thinking about it, and I cant sleep until I get it out (drives me nutz that my head works that way!)

I'm bad at this blogging thing... and its irritating me a little. So I was thinking about why that is, and I know why. It's because my relationships with people are always one-on-one... always! I've never had a "group" of friends. I always get together with friends one-on-one. Coffee, lunch. Catching up for hours at my house or there's. Thats why I've never gotten into myspace, or facebook, or blogging, but I do great with e-mail. And it's not like I share a different part of myself with each person, because I thought about that. I don't hide things, I tell everyone in my life the same stuff.

I guess it's just that I taylor my conversations with people to them specifically.

So what's the point? Nothing really, I guess. Except I cant help but feel like I'm missing out on something. Because one-on-one friendships are great, but I only have the energy to maintain a handful of those. If I kept in contact with everyone I ever cared about in that way I would go crazy. So what happens? People fall through the cracks, because I just cant maintain that many friendships in such a personal way, and I can't bring myself to change the way I am with people. I've had tons of really close friends I've lost track of... and it makes me feel like maybe I've been a bad friend, but I dont know how to be different. The people who have remained in my life know me really well on a personal level. And I didn't think I was a private person, but I dont know, I guess I kind of am.

Blogging is such an efficient way to keep tons of people involved in your life... and I totally suck at it! What the heck!

I dont even know if that expressed my thought fully... Probably didn't, because again, I struggle to put my feelings out there in one public burst. Whatever. I guess that's it for now.

Blah.