Ashley Nelson

For the past 4 years John Huntsman has put on an amazing firework show for the 4th of July in Driggs, Idaho my home town. It always happens the Saturday before the 4th because  he is really good friends with the Melaleuca guy who puts on  the firework show in Idaho Falls, Idaho on the 4th. I have been fortunate enough to make it to all 4 shows and Michael has been to 3. Every year the firework show gets better and better. Being locals we have figured out that if you go early in the morning you can rope off  a section for you family.  Instead of waiting tell 4 o'clock and maybe not getting a good spot. So needless to say we got an awesome spot. After setting up we all had a family breakfast at my grandmas and then headed over to my cousins to find out where he is headed to for his mission. After he opened his mission call we headed to Huntsman Springs. we got there at 4 and they had a talent show going on. It came down to t

Summer is officially here! My favorite season has finally arrived. There is no better way to celebrate the first weekend of summer then camping! Michael and I love camping. Their is just something about campfires, sleeping under the stars, and s'mores  that get me excited to camp. This weekend we camped in Provo canyon with some friends that are going to BYU. Once we got camp all set up and the fire going this little guy decided to pay us a visit. Not going to lie I thought it was a bear sneaking up on us at first. I was scared out of my mind, but then he stuck his head up and I felt a lot better. After making some yummy s'mores and relaxing by the fire we got in the cars and headed to squaw peak to  look at the beautiful lights from on top of the mountain. You can see all of Utah Valley from up there. Everyone knows that if you are looking to get a goodnights rest  that camping is not what you want to be doing. You

Sense tomorrow is the start of the summer season I thought it would be fun to  list some of my loves this summer. ...... Cabana Blueberry Lemonade! I had never had blueberry lemonade until I had some at a restaurant awhile ago sense then I have been addicted. this stuff is amazing and is perfect for a  refreshing hot summers day drink ...... Baby Lips this stuff is amazing for those dry summer lips. you get 2 in 1. they give you the moisture you need as well as add some color to the lip. here are the ones I have so far. clear, nude and berry I eventually need to get all of them!!! ...... Sun Glasses Sun Glasses are a must for me pretty much all year round. I remember when I was little someone told me that its good to wear sun glasses  a lot because if you don't and you have to squint a lot you will get wrinkles on your forehead faster.  Let me tell you that freaked me out and I wear sun glasses all of

I use to hate bloggers. They  made me feel like my life was boring. But then I remembered something my teachers in elementary school use to ask us, "If your house was on fire, what would be the first thing you would grab" I think as a kid I probably said stuff like my toys or something,  but thinking about it now all I would really want to grab are my pictures and journals . If those were to ever burn in a fire or go missing a lot of precious memories would be gone. I wouldn't be able to pass those along to my kids and to their kids. Money can't buy years worth of memories. It can buy a new phones, toys, computers, food, new decorations even a new blanky. but those memories you can never get back. so, I blog for simple assurance that these are the things I will never lose. I don't blog for fame I don't blog to act like I have the best life ever and you don't I don't blog to get recognized by every so

My third semester at BYU-Idaho started in September of 2010  When signing up for classes I noticed I had some room in my schedule to take a stress free class, so decided to take a beginning basketball class. Mostly because I wanted to get back into playing &  to also have something active added into my schedule. Everyone knows that during every first day of class you have to check out all the cute boys  to see who could potentially be cute to date... Am I right?? So of  course while the teacher was splitting us up into teams,  I scan the room to see if there are some cute boys in the class that I could get put on a team with. My teacher finally got to my name and put me on a team.  As I walked over I noticed one of the only cute guys in my class was put on my team!!  We all introduced ourselves to each other and then started to play. Or team dominated! We won every game of course. Once class got out I had to sprint to get changed to g