Catch up

Lets start of with the beginning of July. I turned 22 on the 3rd. Holy crap monkeys i am old. I had a great birthday. I didn't have to work, so i slept in. I then got dressed and went to work to get my bonus check...YAY for bonuses on birthdays. Then i came home and went to Olive Garden with my mom, gma Chinn, Madi and Peyton. MMM love Olive Garden. Then i took myself and Madi birthday shopping to Target. I Bought tons of necklaces and bracelets...yes tons! I now have almost ever color known to man so if you need jewelry for a special occasion give me a holler. Then we went home and played some Wii bowling, i kicked my brothers butts. Then when Elder Martin got home we went and saw Wall-E....um weird show. Then we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. I got to ride the bull and be sung to, yep my face was red. Then we came home and i opened my present...i got what i have been dying for. A miche bag!! Oh i am in love. Have you heard of them? They are oh so cute. Ill post a pic later. Great birthday, thanks family.

July 4th would be next. We didn't do really anything this year. We stayed home and worked in the yard and i in the house. We then went over to my uncles house for food and chit chat. It was good food and fun chit chat. We all then went down to Thanksgiving Pointe for possibly the lamest firework show ever!! Fireworks sucked but it was fun being with the fam. My aunt was here from Cali for her granddaughters baptism so it was fun to see her. I think the best part of the fireworks was the drive home. It took us a good 20 minutes to even leave the parking lot. My cousin Blake rode with us and let me just tell you, that kid is hilarious. Good times were had in the Martin Family BMW(Big Mormon Wagon aka suburban). Here are some photos from that day.

Cam and Braden-TENDER

    Thought these 2 were going to shank me

     This is the love circle Dallin.Cam.Blake

      My mom the peaceful woman


           Blake's mouth full of Oreos

The next event was my birthday dinner the Sunday after my birthday. We had hamburgers and hot dogs and homemade onion rings. I know what you are thinking, lame dinner especially when my mom is a great cooker. But let me tell you this meal was good. Here a pic of the good food. Thanks parentals for the yummy dinner.

                       Yummy
Good fixings!

   got to love popsicles

The next thing is family pictures. The amazingly talented KIM O. took our photos. We went to Murray Park and tried to smile pretty. We got them back on Monday night and let me tell you i am in love. I usually hate pics of myself but Kim is a miracle worker. I will post them as soon as they are purchased!! Thanks again Kim, you are awesome. Love you more than words can describe.

Dallin went through the temple to have his endowments taken out. We had family over after for food and conversation, that was fun. Proud of Dallin and also a bit jealous that he has gone through the temple. Can't wait til i can do that. 

The most recent event was the Chinn family reunion. Thats mostly why i havent been blogging. My mom was in charge this year and wow. She is nuts. We had a lot to do. We had so much fun. That is going to be a blog post itself. So many fun stories and pictures to share. Ill have to do another time because i need to clean my sick nasty room and bathroom.

Hope everyone had a fun 24th, enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Wow July, really?

Wow! Where is the time going? So i just realized that i have not posted for almost a month. Life has been so flipping busy. But i have loved every minute of it, well almost every minute.

June flew right by. Did some fun stuff in June. Hung out with my bestfriend before she left me for 2 years. My cute friend Monica is serving a mission in the New York, New York North mission spanish speaking. Oh how i love her!! She has been with me through thick and thin. She is going to make a great missionary. Love her so much.

                                                  

This month was also spent preparing for Girls Camp. Glad its done. I never realized just how much work it takes to put something like that together. This was my 12th year going. Yeah i said 12th. I have gone every year since i turned 12. I went 2 one year because i was in Cali visiting fam and then i came home and went again with home ward. After i turned 18 I went with the Stake as a cook until i was called into my ward YW's. 

Camp this year was great. The spirit was so strong. The theme was More precious than Rubies. I thought it was lame at first but once we got up there, i loved it! On Christ Day they had a special program that they have never done before, and the spirit was so strong. They had the preisthood sing "Walk Tall Your a Daughter". WOW. So amazing. I will remember that feeling for a long time. 

One downside to camp was that my dear sweet beehives, got ahold of my phone and tried to enter my password or something to many times so it blew the sim card. So i lost all my numbers on my phone. So if you would be so kind to send them to me again, that would be appreciated.

We also celebrated Fathers Day this moth as well. I love my dad very much. I don't tell him that enough. We have defintley not been the best of friends, but i love him. He is a great man and a wonderful father. He provides for us and loves us. My dad is so HARD to shop for. He always just tells us to give him peace and love and he will be happy. I hate that answer, hate it!! 

We went big and got him an amazing gift for Fathers Day, his birthday and Christmas for the next year or two haha. We got him a new 46" HD flat screen TV. Wow! The thing is huge and the picture is oh so amazing. Playing the Wii and Guitar Hero on the sucker is amazing. He was totally surprised and we loved every minute of it.

Sorry this is so long. I just want to mention one more thing. There is a family that could use some extra prayers and happy thoughts right now. I went to school with a kid named Josh Hinckley. He and his wife Cali were going to welcome a new baby into the world, however our Heavenly Father had some different plans. There baby passed away before he was born.  From the sounds of things they are doing as well as could be expected at a time like this. I know you probably don't know them, heck i don't know them super well but if you could include them in your prayers for a while that would be so wonderful.

Hope all is well with everyone!