there is always a bright side.

yum. mexicones.the bueno fresa coco please?!? best place ever.
my cute ryan and my cute camelot.

me, ben, and ryan getting ready to play some hard core basketball.

what?!? we are both smiling normal!?

go aggies! they actually won! wooooo! it's the first full utah state football game i have been to. i only went to the whole thing because of Ryan. he LOOOVVVEES his sports.

me and ry= bad to the bone.

me and ryan "growling" at eachother.

hello! i hope everyone is having a busy, beautiful fall. i am keeping busy! i just got a 2nd job! i am going to nanny 2 days a week and then every other saturday night. it will be good to have some extra money. my goal is to save it for school,camera equipment, traveling, and actually having a savings account..... usually i spend my extra money on clothes and sushi.. oops. we will see how it goes. haha. i bet my mom and dad laughed out loud reading that. :) saving money + sami jo=oxymoron. i am trying to be a grown up though! haha. anyways.. life is good. it's crazy and i like it! here is some pics from the last week. me and ryan finally have a normal picture together where we are both smiling! it's a miracle. we are quite the weirdos and seem to bring out the weirdness in eachother even more when we are together. haha. anyways. i hope everything is going great for everybody. keep up the good work with the blogs. i love looking at all of them!

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me and ryan getting ready to play some hardcore football.


me happy to be at the park with katlin and kase. ( they came up to slc a couple weekends ago! best time ever)

me and ryan after playing in a waterfall. crazy children.

ryan being a weirdo creep. we get a long very well. haha.

hiking to bells to jump in the lake. everyone thought it was cold but me.

it's the wyoming girl in me. :) haha

me and my besty cousin. she came to aunt rauna's while me and katie were staying there.

kase took this!!!

me and my burnt rice. hahahahaha. oh wow.

I am a horrible blogger! SOOO much has happened since my last blog so the few people that actually look at my blog I will update you. :) So I was planning on moving to SLC in the fall to finish school but ended up getting a job sooner than I thought! I ended up moving the first week in July and started my new job at a group home with people with disabilities the very day I moved. Most of you that know me know that I HATE big cities. I was dreading leaving Logan and moving to somewhere I knew I wasn't fond of. Luckily Ryan lived in Draper for the summer so he helped me adjust and enjoy the rest of my summer in "the big city." It was hard when he moved back to logan for school and I knew all of my friends were together in Logan having a good time without me. Luckily I am taking 15 credits and work 59 hours a week so now I don't have much time to think about missing Logan. haha. I have prayed for strength to have a good attitude about Salt Lake and enjoy the time I am here and grow from it. I really like my ward and Luckily I am starting to "like" Salt Lake and I'm adjusting better than I thought. I get to see my friends every week still because I go see Ryan once a week and he is here a lot of the weekends so life is good! I have a couple more semesters here in SLC with my photo program and then I will move back to Logan in May. So along with school and work taking up a lot of my time I have also been training for my half marathon which I ran last weekend! http://shotu.smugmug.com/UTAH-EVENTS/Suncrest-Mountain-Race/Suncrest-Mountain-Race3/9608670_qCVHc#647310755_Vin6a haha such a funny pic... by the way Mandi sent me that shirt and waterbottle in the mail! What a sweetie. I am now training for the full marathon in December which will be in Las Vegas. :) So between school, work, boyfriend, running, church, and friends life is busy and good! :) HAPPY FALL! oh and by the way..I am also trying to be a better cook... It's not working. *see burnt rice picture* haha. The other pictures I added are a random mix the past couple weeks. :)