Shay's Place

~Cali~

2009-04-18T10:32:00.001-07:00

chillin on the beach with one of my really good friends Mercedes!

I really enjoyed all the freak shows it was cheap entertainment. This guy walked around dressed as a tree from head to toe and got mad at me for taking a picture without donating any money it was kinda scary.

wow! I dont even know where to start with this guy he would roller blade up and down the beach walk. He had some kind of system set up and would sing and play his instrament and get right in your ear so you could hear him. He was not trying to make money he would hand out tee shirts and all shorts of things to try and promote peace! We were talking to some locals and they said that he has lived on Vience beach for over ten years now. He was a crazy guy!

This gold man would stand still the whole time until someone put money in his bucket. ofcourse we had to see him come alive so we put money in his bucket and he busted out all these Michael Jakson moves it was worth the dollar we put in.

Another weird bum trying to make a dollar anyway he can. Hey he is doing a good job we donated 2 bucks just to get a picture by his sand lizzard. He would make a new lizzard everyday because at night the clean up crew would take it down.

lots of wanna be rappers try to sale there music on the beach. This guy was our favorite we even baught a cd from him and we told him we would show it to all our home bois in Utah and he will become famous somday becasue of us.

One of the many weird bums we meet. This guys name was dood and he has a friend named caveman.

I could sit and look at the ocean for hours and hours its so pretty!

It does not get much better then this!Peace and love is what cali is all about!!!

Me being a beach bum

Chillin at the beach

Good bye cali until we meet again!

!WOW!

2009-04-15T13:28:00.000-07:00

WOW I just realized how fast time goes by when you are so busy. Its has now been four months since I have updated my blog. Last time I checked blogging is supposed to be away to journal your thoughts and some good times or bad in your life. I am pretty sure the idea of a journal is write in it everyday or at least once a week. Yes I have failed horribly at this blogging thing. In fact the only reason I have time to be blogging right now is because its spring break and I don't have piles and piles and piles of homework. That's only for this week though. So I am sure I will not be blogging again until school is over. I have five more weeks of school and I am done for good. Finishing High school has not been easy for me in fact it has been one of the hardest things that I have been through. I hate every second of it, but it is something that I have to do and when they call my name out at graduation its going to be one of the greatest accomplishments ever! I will more then likely jump up and down screaming and make a fool out of my self but I don't even care that's just how excited I will be. The past four months I have managed to get out and do a few fun things. I am very thankful for those people that have been her for me through some hard times in my life Thank you to the good family I have and some of my close friends! I love you all!

2009-01-04T13:41:00.000-08:00

!!!HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
This year for new years I went up to Jace's cabin with his family we all had a great time and just hung out and chilled. we went shooting, played pool, ate lots of food, watched fire works, and celebrated the new year. Thanks mom and dad Blick for letting me come with ya I had lots of FUN!!!

Just chillin

Going shooting

warming my hands up!

Jace shooting his blow dart gun I gave him for Christmas.

Makell and I hanging out in the saloon

Jace playing pool

mom macee and I chillin on new years eve

HAPPY NEW YEAR WHOO!!!

the whole fam damnly Macee and Dalton Makell Jace and I and mom and dad

!New year fireworks!

2009-01-04T13:21:00.000-08:00

TAYLOR SNOWBOARDING

READY TO BOARD!!!

Lots of crashes!

Lunch Time.

Making his way down the big hill!

Daxton and taylor are best buddies.

Taylor and I on the lift.

2009-01-04T13:05:00.000-08:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Jace and I playing the wii

All the boys playing wii. Tay Tay, Jace, Dally boy, and Dax. I cried when I opened this I miss him so much! He gets home in 24 days whoo!!!

Everything I got for Christmas! clothes, 100 bucks, gift cards, camera, blow drier, straightener, my favorite fiji water, cute picture Che gave me, a snowboarding waxing iron Daxton gave me, hoddie and blanky Jace gave me, and the family got a wii.

2009-01-04T12:26:00.000-08:00

Yes I know I have not posted for like two months now. I have been busy having so much fun in my life I just never get around to sharing with you how much fun I am having. I dont even know where to being so I will start with Christmas. This year is the second year now that we have been without che it is much different without him hear on holidays. So Christmas at the Carson's house was really laid back with just the four of us. I always love Christmas season its full of parties and spending time with the fam. This past year I feel like I have became really close to my family not just mom,dad, and brothers but my extended family. I have realized that friends really do come and go but your family will always be here for you. I have spent alot of time with my aunt Amy and her three little kids that I love so much and would do anything for. I Love that I can tell Amy anything and she listens to me and gives me good advice. I would consider her one of my best friends. After christmas got over I have been busy with work and having lots of fun celebrating new years. Because I have been out of school for a couple weeks I have been snowboarding alot. I even got to take my little cuz tay for his first time and teach him a few things about snowboarding. For his first time and being only seven he did AMAZING and did not complain one time. People always tell me I am growing up too fast and I just laugh and disagree with them, but watching Tay and all Amy's kids grow up and get big I know what they mean. I swear it was just last year I was in the hospital room watching sweet little Taylor being born but sure enough seven years later I am teaching him how to snowboard. The school break is almost over, I will be going back to school tomorrow and start getting into normal life with work and school and not so much fun. That's what life is all about. I feel like I take so much for granite just the little things that I hate so much such as school and work I have came to realize is a blessing in my life. As I sit here laying in my bed on my laptop, listening to music from my ipod down loading pictures from my new digital camera. and laughing at Daxton while he plays the wii we got for Christmas. I am thinking about how flippin spoiled I am and how I need to be more grateful to everyone around me and just everyday life. To me these are just little things but to another they would not know what to do with everything I have. So on that note my new years resolution is to be more grateful for the "LITTLE THINGS"

2008-11-02T14:59:00.000-08:00

I know it looks like I live my life out of bags, well I got news for you I DO. This is usually how I leave my house in the morning. The brown backpack is for my EMT class, the red bag is for Highschool and the pink bag is for work. I dont have time between classes and work to come home and change or grab a nother school bag. so all my clothes make up hair spray books and anything else I need for the day have to leave with me in the morning. At first this was really hard and I was always forgetting a bag or one work shoe or something but now I got it down pretty good and dont forget anything.

BESTEST FRIEND

2008-10-31T10:37:00.000-07:00

Right now I am visiting my best friend in the whole world. She is going to school in cedar city I came down for the weekend to see her and we are having a blasty blast I really miss her and glade that I get to spend the weekend with my best friend!!!

2008-10-26T12:10:00.000-07:00

Thanks mom for helping with the changing process. yeah I had to change like a million times but it was worth it.

About a month ago I got the chance to spend all day with my grandpa. I decide that I wanted some picture of myself kinda like Sr. pictures, but not just your ordinary Sr. pics I wanted them to be very unique. Because my Grandpa Tom is a photographer he was just the man for the job. we stared at seven in the morning and did not get done til nine at night. Everything went perfect we did have a little rain throughout out the day but it made some really cool clouds for the pictures. We hit every spot that we scoped out. we started in Lehi and ended up in Salt Lake hitting just about every city in between. In the end we got some really good pictures just what I was looking for. THANK YOU GRANDPA!!!

CRAZY LIFE

2008-10-23T15:00:00.000-07:00

Lets just start out to say I know it has been almost a month but I have good reasons I have been a very busy person between school and work its very hard to find time on the computer. I am still finishing up high school I have until December and then I will be done whoo!!! I am also taking some EMT classes that I will be done with in January then start a good job doing what i love. I am still working at sizzler but like I said I will be getting a new job here shortly. There is a little up date about me.

Sunset

2008-08-29T14:37:00.000-07:00

One of my most favorite things about summer time are the amazing sunsets. I love how every sunset is different. I have so many memories when it comes to sunsets. I have a very good friend that everytime there is a sunset we call each other and say look at the sky. Sometimes we are on vacation and not in the same place as each other so we will take pictures of the sunset and then show them when we get back. This friend of mine I will not be seeing for a very very long time due to some life choices he has made. I am going to miss telling him to look at the sunsets and watching the sunset with him when ever we got the chance. While he is gone I am going to take a picture of every sun set I can. This night I got home just in time to grab the camera and take a few pics. I guess I should start being like my mom and aunt Amy and taking a camera with me everywhere I go.

NEW CAR

2008-07-30T17:53:00.000-07:00

I am not Car less anymore!!! I got my new car about a week ago, and I LOVE it. It an 06 Mazda 3 hatchback. It was so crazy how everything worked out. I went and looked at the car in the morning decided that I was going to buy it because I have been looking at these cars for a very long time and knew it was a good deal. So my mom and I went to the bank to see if I would qualified for a lone. We thought it would take a couple days for everything to go through, but we thought wrong I qualified for a lone by my self and everything went through right then. So we called the people and said we were ready to buy it they just needed to come down to the bank and fill out a little paper work. After meeting them at the bank we went over to the DMV to get the temporary plates. We then meet the people that owned the car one last time and they handed over the keys to me. Easy as that I had my new car. My mom and I were so shocked it all happened in one day. My mom was very excited that she did not have to haul my butt around anymore and of course I was excited because I just got a new car!

2008-07-17T09:23:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was a very sad but happy day for me. I bought my car when I was sixteen with my own money and have been making monthly payment on it for two years now. I have decide to put it up for sale so that I can get a new car. Well I was all excited about the new car and sailing my old one til it really happened. As I was cleaning the closet out of my trunk yesterday for the new owners I started thinking of all the memories in my little car. All the good times my Friends had in it. Taking it to Jr. high and sluffing the whole last month of school, just because I had a car in Jr. high and thought I was cool. The high school parking lot doing donuts, drifting in it and having Jason pop the tire, the traditional Wendy's lunch trip everyday, hanging out the sun roof because the windows didn't roll down. There are so many more memories so as I saw my car drive away yesterday it brought tears to my eyes. I guess that's just life, things come and go. So right now I am carless and back to having my mommy run me around.

July 4th

2008-07-08T10:16:00.001-07:00

M fourth was a very fun day spent with family and friends. It started on Thursday night going down to Provo and hanging out with some friends staying up all night to have a good spot to watch the Provo parade. People do not mess around down in Provo. It was a very crazy event, the side walks of prove were just covered with people and blankets, air mattress, cots and more people. Every one brought their big screen TVs out side to play Halo and guitar hero on. I enjoyed walking the streets meeting new people and just watching everyone go crazy just over a parade. After staying up all night the parade finally came, It was a very good parade and worth staying up all night for. After the parade I went up the AF canyon to relax and sit in the cool breeze. The family ate lunch up there and talked with grandma and grandpa for a bit. Once we were done with the canyon we went over to my uncle Larry's and aunt Sande's house to eat some more and chill some more. We waited for it to get dark then lit off some fire works. We even had the cops join us and crash our party. Of course the Carson's can never get together with out having the cops show up. Thank goodness they did not see my cousin Nate shooting bottle rockets at me as I run across the yard, we really would have been in trouble then. Over all It was a very fun 4th. I am so thankful that we have a day that we can celebrate our Independence and that we are a free country.
Daxton my friend madison and me at the Provo parade

Me up AF canyon on the 4th

Daxton and I up the canyon its always a tradition to take pictures by the river.

Playing with the sparklers

Summer Days

2008-07-07T14:56:00.000-07:00

Mya even played in the water and went down the slippin slide a few times. she is just like her cousin shayla and loves being out in the sun any chance she gets.

Dallin just laughed the whole time and thought it was so funny that he had to wear Daxtons underwear as a swim suit.

Taylor playing on the slippin slide

Mya just had to eat the snow cone all by her self and get all messy.

The kids eating snow cones

I wrote the kids names in chalk I thought it was a cute idea. It was one of the last things we did and they were sick of pictures so none of them were looking.

Crazy little Dally boy

Sweet Taylor eating some lunch

little Mya bugs at the park

Playing in the park with the kids. On Thursday Amy had to start here new job so I got to watch her kids for the day. We had a very exciting day. It started off with uncle shane buying the boys two new bata fish, bucasuse taylor was really upset that his fish died. after the trip to the pet store we packed a lunch and headed to the park. Daxton came with us and played with the boys for a long time. we eat luch and played some more. After a long play time in the 100 degree wheather we decided to go down town and get some snow cones. As if that was not enough for one day, once we got some all the boys and even Mya played in the water on the slippin slide. I had so much fun being the babysitter for the day I love my little cousins. I love to see them happy and having a good time. Every time I am with them and they smile or laugh I cant help but have a big smile on my face.

The Weekend

2008-06-30T09:54:00.001-07:00

Saturday night we went to the Lehi rodeo. Amy, Jake, Mya, Grandma sis, my mom, my Friend Jason, and me. we all had a great time!

Sweet little Mya and I at the parade

Saturday morning we went to the Lehi parade it was lots of fun. Amy had to work so we took her kids and Daxton invited cousin tanner to come along. Aunt Shauna Shelby and Shayna came with us too. The kids had a lot of fun and got lots of candy which is all the care about.

Nate and Desse!

The weekend started out great! My cousin Nate got married on Friday to Dessee. The wedding was absolutely amazing everything turned out great and was so cute. The colors were pinks and black and of course my mom and I had to match.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

2008-06-27T08:42:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday! To my crazy fun loving brother. Yesterday che turned 22. It so weird for me to think I have a brother that old and I am sure my mom is just dying of the thought. I love me brother so much he is such a great example the me. He has been through allot and is a very strong person. Here are 22 things I love about che because he is turning 22.

1.I love how he makes me laugh when ever I am sad or having a bad day.
2. I love that he is my older brother and looks out for me all the time.
3. I love that he always is giving me advice even when I don't ask for it.
4. I love that he would always take me down town with him to get a drink.
5. I love that he is such a happy person.
6. I love that he is a comedian and always has a joke to tell.
7. I love how he takes forever to tell stories.
8. I love that he is such a hard worker.
9.I love that he would always come in and wake me up
when he got home and tell me all about his night.
10. I love that he played football so I could go watch him play.
11. I love that he would make me breakfast all the time.
12. I love that when I was in jr. high he would always take
me to school.
13. I love his orange blazer that he thinks is so cool and
worked so hard to get.
14. I love that he likes to shop and would always take me
shopping with him.
15. I love that he took daxton and me to all the mid night
Harry Potter movies.
16. I love that he is a good listener.
17. I love that he is a polor bear and will swim in any water
even if its feezing cold.
18. I love that he is a very understanding person and will
forgive you.
19. I love that he is a peace maker and does not like fighting.
20. I love that he is on a mission serving the lord.
21. I love that he is a great example to me.
22. I love that he is my BIG brother.

Red Hat Ladies

2008-06-26T08:26:00.000-07:00

The group of Red Hat Ladies

Last night at work I got to serve the Red Hat Ladies. They are just sweet fun little ladies. About twenty-five ladies came from Spanish fork where this group was from. Each lady let my try on there hats. Every hat was so different, the ladies are so creative. This is the "queen mom" and me she was so nice. I even got a cup cake out of the whole deal. I had allot of fun serving them.

Hike

2008-06-25T13:23:00.000-07:00

Yesterday My mom invited me to go on a hike with her and the YW. I have been on this hike many times but it is worth it. I love hiking and getting a little exercies in. The hike is up to stuwart falls its a four mile hike. once you get to the water fall you realize that every step you took to get there was worth it. No matter how many times I go on this hike everytime I come down the hill and see the water fall it takes my breath away and all I can say is WOW as the mist is blowing in my face and I feel the cool breez all over my body. Nothing is better then achiving your goals and taking that last step to achive it and then having it be such an amazing outcome. As I sat there eating luch looking at the water fall that I hiked to see a thought came to my mind. Life could be like this you make a goal and achive it in the end its like this amazing water fall that you have been wainting so long to see. So everytime I start to think that I cant achive my goals or start feeling down on my self I am going to think of this water fall that I worked so hard to get to and once I get to this amazing sight it was worth every hard hill I had to climb or every rock I had to step over. In the end it will be worth achiving my goals

2008-06-25T13:16:00.000-07:00

Its always tradition to go to the stawberry days parade. I love the parades being out in the sun and spending an afternoon with the family. I love little mya in most pics I am holding her or anut ange.

Rodeo

2008-06-25T13:05:00.000-07:00

I love summer nights going to all the rodeos, firework shows, carnivals, and the concerts in the parks. On thursday I took my little brother to the Strawberry days rodeo, while my mom and dad went to a wedding. After the wedding they come to the rodoe so we got to spend a little family time together. I also got to go on friday night with a date. I had a great time it was a very good rodeo. Thank you mom for working for me so that I could go.

2008-06-25T12:50:00.000-07:00

Just another AMAZING thing that happens at powell. I am so greatful for such a neat place to go and get away form the world and spend some time with such an amazing family. Thank you aunt shauna for letting me come and spend some time with you and your girls.

2008-06-25T12:44:00.000-07:00

We got to see the damn it was really neat. my aunt shuana has never seen the dam befor so it was really cool the water was so deep and blue.

2008-06-25T12:41:00.000-07:00

while in lake powell we camp, so in order to get "clean" we have to bath in the lake. so everynight we go skinny dipping enough said.

2008-06-25T12:27:00.000-07:00

One this day we set out for an afternoon andventure. we wanted to go sight seeing because we have never seen this side of lake powell. We packed a lunch hoping to find some shade so eat under and on are way we went. We found this really cool bay that had some really pretty rocks we went really slow just looking at the rocks and how cool the colors were. Its was another really fun day. we did not find any shade to eat lunch under, but thats what the jump in parties are for

2008-06-25T12:18:00.000-07:00

"The Taco" This tub and aunt shauna driving will just about kill ya. shelby and I rode this alot the first day and got throwin around like little rag dolls. For some odd reason everytime we feel off we just got back on so it must have been fun. The next day I was done for, my body was so swore I was not going to get back on that tub again, but sure enough I did.

2008-06-25T12:12:00.000-07:00

Wake boarding was a big part of the trip. I only got to wake board once though, the board is a little to big for me and my feet kept slipping out of the board. I had fun while it lasted. After that I just watched shelby and shany wake board they are really good and fun to watch.

2008-06-25T12:06:00.000-07:00

"The wienie" lets just say this thing will give you the ride of your life. When aunt Shauna gets that look on her face you better hang on. The three of us had a lot of fun and some good laughs on that wienie

2008-06-25T12:02:00.000-07:00

Becasue this was a chick trip down to powell we had to get a pic infront of the NO FEAR house boat.

2008-06-25T11:48:00.000-07:00

Lake powell here we come! Shelby, Shayna and I found out very fast that the back set of my grandpas tuck is very little to be stuck back there for six hours. Shelby and Shayna got to take a little nap. As for shany shauna and I, we stayed up chatting and taking pics. The ride down was very long,but enjoyable and very worth the six hour drive.

TTA - Five Senses - Sound

2008-06-10T10:40:00.000-07:00

I decided that I am going to start to do the TTA' s. If you cant guess this is me screaming my lungs out, but its for a very good reason. I was at the Rascel flatts concert. There is nothing better then going to a concert and listening to the sounds of great music being played over huge speakers. To go along with great music you get to hear the sounds of all the poeple around you screaming having a great time, just like you are. speaking for my family they got to hear the sound of my high pitched annoying scream the whole concert. If I would have to take my guess I dont think they appreciated the sound to much this day, thanks to my voice.

2008-06-09T13:09:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my dad, little brother and I went on a nice horse ride up Alpine canyon. It was such a nice day, the sun was out the whole time, I could not ask for a better way to spend my Sunday afternoon. I love being outside and enjoying the nice weather. We met some friends up there that were camping. Ate a little grub and rested a little. Then set out for a pretty long ride. We ran into some problems along the way, like daxton getting bucked off jake (the mule), nothing to serious happend to him, just lots of brusing. We are lucky that he was not hurt really bad and that he is a tough cowboy. Also my dad was dipping his head in the river to cool off and lost his hat, he was pretty upset about it. Over all it was a great day we all made it home safe and sound in one piece, which made mom really happy.

SUMMER

2008-06-05T13:23:00.001-07:00

When I look at these pictures two things come to mind, LAKE POWELL and SUMMER. These pictures were taken last summer during our girls trip down to powell. I just have to announce to everyone next weekend the girls and I are going to be taking a girls trip down to powell!!! It will be the first powell trip of the season with many more to come. I am very excited for summer to be here and the chance to go on lots of vacations with my family and friends. Mostly I am excited for lake powell, because we all know that A BAD DAY AT POWELL IS BETTER THAN A GOOD DAY AT HOME!!! (the lake powell motto)

Sunday

2008-05-25T15:22:00.000-07:00

Today was the first time in a very long time that I have been to church, so I thought it was a very special time and we had to capture the moment. As I was walking down the stairs I notice that my mom and I had the same colors on, what can I say, great minds think alike. So today we went to church as twins. I love my mom so much she is a very sweet lady and I am so greatful for her and everything she does for me. I am very lucky to have the best mom in the world

"Cow Branding Party"

2008-05-20T15:05:00.000-07:00

Lets just say that saturday was a very BIG adventure for the family. It all started because my uncle larry owns a bunch of cows, so each year they have a "Cow branding party" everyone comes and helps out anyway they can. My dad was the cook and made tonz of dutch oven food it was so yummy. My mom halped with all the kids, helped my dad, and was the picture taker. I as the pictures show was in charge of giving one of the three shots. For some reason I kinda found it entertaining I looked at it like I was not hurting them but helping the cows. And daxton well he just hung out and drove the fourwheelers around. Over all it was a day full of adventure and I even got a little tan so it was a great way to spend my saturday afternoon!!!

Mish Boys

2008-05-14T14:18:00.000-07:00

this is mike and i on his last day at the sizz right befor he left on his mish to cali. Mike is one of my really good friends and i am his little buddy. he will be coming home soon about a month after che and i am very excited to see him.

2008-05-14T10:37:00.001-07:00

This is my best friend in the whole world he is on a mission right now in North Carolina. He has been out for 16 months so he gets to come home soon whoo i am so so excited. He is the best missionary ever. I love these pictures of him because it just show the side of che that we all love he is always doing or saying somthing funny and can make any one laugh.